Disclaimer: Please refer to Chapter 1, thank you.
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In case you are wondering:
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' ' : Characters' thought
" " : Characters speaking
[ ] : That would be me talking (or typing, for that matter)
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"Where is Tomoyo? She is never late for her meals," Queen Daidouji drawled. She looked around the royal table and her gaze stopped on the emerald eye brunette. Her eyes had looked questioning. Sakura looked back at Sonomi calmly before speaking out clearly.
"I haven't seen her after I visited her, maybe she is still not in good health and needed some rest? Should I go and get her, Sonomi- baasan?"
Sonomi just nodded and wave a dismissal. Sakura got up from the dinning table and went on her way towards Tomoyo's chamber. A few minutes later, she came back running and looking very disoriented. Yuki, Tomoyo's personal handmaid was following close behind her.
"Tomoyo's missing, Sonomi-baasan! Yuki-chan doesn't know where she is as well..." Sakura's eyes were shining with unshed tears, as if her best friend had just...well, you wouldn't want to know. Sonomi stood up abruptly and slammed her palms on the table. Everyone sitting around the table jumped in their sits for the Queen had seldom get so aggitated.
"What? Have you search everywhere? The library, the garden maze...?" Sonomi practically listed out all of the possible places in the Palace that Tomoyo like to be in. Sakura just lowered her head as Syaoran stood up and went over to calm his distraught fiancee. Yuki shook her head and bowed down in deep apology.
"I have search all the places mentioned but I haven't seen Tomoyo- sama. All I found is this book in the middle of the labryinth. I have failed in my duty to serve her well, Daidouji-sama," Yuki quavered, holding out Arashi's journal in front of her as evidence. Regret was evident on her face. The Queen sank back into her chair, her expression blank as though she was about to faint. King Fujitaka turned to his daughter, who was still standing there next to the handmaid.
"Perhaps you could use the Sakura cards to scry for Tomoyo-san," Fujitaka calmly spoke up wisely.
"There's no need for Sakura to use the cards, Kinomoto-sama," a voice that sound solemn and at the same time cute answered from the doorway. The King turned towards the voice.
"And pray tell, why is that so, Keroberos-san?"
"Because I saw Tomoyo-chan with the Prince. He had taken her away."
"What?!..." All the voices chorused from the table, with the exceptions of Touya and Yukito, who merely frowned.
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Eriol was in his study, sitting on his red, supposedly throne- like armchair and was just staring into space, brooding, when Advisor Lucas hastily came in and bowed before him.
"Prince Eriol, you are requested to be in the throne room. The Queen of Winter Soliloquy is waiting for you, along with King Fujitaka..."
Eriol frowned.
'Did something really happened to Daidouji-san?' Ever since he had that dream in the garden, he couldn't help but worry for the Princess who had stolen his heart.
Outloud, he spoke, "I'll be there in a minute."
When he reached the throne room however, not just Queen Sonomi and King Fujitaka were there, practically the whole of the Winter Soliloquy royalty were present and all wore grim expression. The look on the Queen told Eriol that he was about to be slashed verbally. His own King looked at him pensively.
"Eriol, what is going on? Queen Daidouji would never stepped onto our grounds without a perfect reason. It must have been a very grave situation for the Queen to come down here personally."
"Where did you hide my daughter?" Sonomi asked bluntly. Everyone could just detect a hint of sharpness in her tone. Eriol winced mentally.
"I am sorry Daidouji-sama. I did not have your daughter with me, I was in the Palace all this time," He answered politely.
"Please do not try to deny it, Keroberos had seen you with her in OUR royal garden and he had personally witness her kidnapping," Sonomi snapped. Eriol flinched slightly at the word 'kidnapping'.
"Eriol-sama certainly did not kidnap Daidouji-san for he loved her too much to want to hurt her. And he was in the Quintessence gardens all the while for the whole day, we could be his witness," another voice spoke up. It was a clear, gentle deep voice and with a distinctive air to it. Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon both stood in the entrance of the throne room, looking back at the Queen, a fierce protective light shone in both the guardians' baleful eyes. The Queen just glare back evenly.
"Both of you are his creations, naturally you would defend your master. If he was in the Quintessence garden the whole day then how would you explain what Keroberos saw?" Sonomi had almost scoffed. Ruby Moon was about to defend her master again but Eriol held up a hand to silence her.
"There is an explanation for this, Daidouji-sama and I suspect it had connections with what happened in my past life," Eriol replied quietly without a hint of emotion on his face. Well, that was because all rationalism had left his brain and he was dead worried about what might happened to his beloved. Mechanically, he led them to the sitting room for the guests and gestured for them to sit before he sat down himself on one of the armchair, with his guardians standing on either side behind him. Eriol rubbed his temples with his fingers before he got down to telling the Winter Soliloquy royalty about the contents of Clow's journal, his recent dream that occurred a few hours ago and lastly, to his suspicions.
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'Ne Suppi-chan, I'm very worried for Eriol-sama. He's too...calm,' Ruby Moon thought, sending the mental thought telepathically to her companion. For once, Spinel didn't seem to mind her calling him 'Suppi-chan'. Instead, he nodded his head mentally.
'Yes, I suppose you are right, Ruby Moon. Eriol-sama seems too calm for his own good. I have never seen him act like this in my entire life. It looks like whoever had held Daidouji-san captive is going to get Eriol-sama's wrath when they meet each other,' Spinel thought analytically.
'I really pity the person who's going to get it,' Ruby Moon thought dryly.
Both guardians sweatdrop nervously when Eriol turned around slightly to look at them straight in the eyes.
'It's impolite to talk about your master behind his back...and you are right, I will personally see to it that the person who kidnapped Daidouji-san will end up in hades and also for the fact that he impersonate me to make the Queen thinks I'm the one who kidnap her and leave a bad impression...' Eriol mused, smirking mentally. Both guardians glanced at each other and sighed.
'Eriol-sama never seems to lose his nasty sense of humor even when in the face of a disaster.'
'I never consider this a disaster. That person is too much of a coward so much so that he goes to such an extent of kidnapping Daidouji-san just to get back at me,' In that moment, Eriol's tone had change from amusement to that of one filled with cold fury.
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Tomoyo yawned and her eyes fluttered a few times before they opened.
'I'm so tired, maybe I can sleep in a little more?' She was starting to feel her eyes drooped when it suddenly opened yet again, but this time with confusion before it changed to that of dreaded realisation. She was in an unfamiliar surrounding.
'Wait a minute, this isn't my room, where am I?' She thought, sweatdropping profusely as the first pang of panick starting to hit on her full blast and she just barely kept her emotions under control as she tried hard to go back to what had happened before she woke up to this strange surrounding.
~Flashback~
She was about to go back to the palace as it was turning dusk but stopped short when someone stepped out from around the bush that he was hidding from. Arashi's journal fell from her hands with a dull thud on the clobberstone ground that she was standing on.
"Hii...Hiiragizawa-sama, wh...what are you doing here?" She cursed herself silently for not being able to keep her tongue straight whenever she was around him. The dark-haired Prince just chuckled lightly before stepping up so that he was directly in front of her, closing the distance between both of them. He could just denote a slight blush that had steal across her pale, translucent complexion when he neared her. He reached out and lifted her chin with one of his hands.
"It is because I miss your presence. Without you by my side, I feel...empty inside,"[hey it rhymes!-^_^-], he breathed huskily as he reached up and placed his other hand on his chest with splayed fingers, where his heart was. He just had the satisfaction of seeing her blushed harder [if that is even possible] and also to see the look of despair and torment entered her beautiful mauve eyes.
And he saw that she was about to speak so he bend down casually and captured her soft, red lips in his to cut off what she was going to say. He knew he had won when he felt the Princess yield to his kiss and smirked when she collasped, unconscious, into his awaiting arms...
~End Flashback~
Tomoyo gasped. Was that really him? He was so different from the normally gentle, if not pensive Prince that she knew a few days ago at her masked ball. This Eriol seems flamboyant, almost...seductive, with an aura of danger and darkness surrounding him.
Her thoughts were rudely disrupted when the door to her room, or rather the room that she's currently reside in opened slowly with an audible creak.
"Hmm...must get the servants to oil the hinges sometime," The deep, alluring voice muttered amused. Tomoyo turned towards the voice, seemingly to be attracted to it, like a moth to a flame.
The man turned his attention from the door hinges to the former sleeping beauty who is currently sitting up in bed, with a shocked look on her face.
"I see you have awaken, lover of the reincarnation of Clow Read," The man greeted with a slight, flourished bow.
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~PLum BLoSsOm~ : Well, I was quite upset that there are so few reviews, in fact I think there was only one, for my previous chapter...so I beg of you pple to review after you read, cuz I'm beginning to think that I have probably lost my touch with my inspirations...but I will post the chapters up anyway...And I would like to thank not applicable, Fuu2 and possibly December-sins cuz I have seen their reviews in practically every chapters that I have posted up...
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In case you are wondering:
~*~ : change of scene / change of POV
' ' : Characters' thought
" " : Characters speaking
[ ] : That would be me talking (or typing, for that matter)
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"Where is Tomoyo? She is never late for her meals," Queen Daidouji drawled. She looked around the royal table and her gaze stopped on the emerald eye brunette. Her eyes had looked questioning. Sakura looked back at Sonomi calmly before speaking out clearly.
"I haven't seen her after I visited her, maybe she is still not in good health and needed some rest? Should I go and get her, Sonomi- baasan?"
Sonomi just nodded and wave a dismissal. Sakura got up from the dinning table and went on her way towards Tomoyo's chamber. A few minutes later, she came back running and looking very disoriented. Yuki, Tomoyo's personal handmaid was following close behind her.
"Tomoyo's missing, Sonomi-baasan! Yuki-chan doesn't know where she is as well..." Sakura's eyes were shining with unshed tears, as if her best friend had just...well, you wouldn't want to know. Sonomi stood up abruptly and slammed her palms on the table. Everyone sitting around the table jumped in their sits for the Queen had seldom get so aggitated.
"What? Have you search everywhere? The library, the garden maze...?" Sonomi practically listed out all of the possible places in the Palace that Tomoyo like to be in. Sakura just lowered her head as Syaoran stood up and went over to calm his distraught fiancee. Yuki shook her head and bowed down in deep apology.
"I have search all the places mentioned but I haven't seen Tomoyo- sama. All I found is this book in the middle of the labryinth. I have failed in my duty to serve her well, Daidouji-sama," Yuki quavered, holding out Arashi's journal in front of her as evidence. Regret was evident on her face. The Queen sank back into her chair, her expression blank as though she was about to faint. King Fujitaka turned to his daughter, who was still standing there next to the handmaid.
"Perhaps you could use the Sakura cards to scry for Tomoyo-san," Fujitaka calmly spoke up wisely.
"There's no need for Sakura to use the cards, Kinomoto-sama," a voice that sound solemn and at the same time cute answered from the doorway. The King turned towards the voice.
"And pray tell, why is that so, Keroberos-san?"
"Because I saw Tomoyo-chan with the Prince. He had taken her away."
"What?!..." All the voices chorused from the table, with the exceptions of Touya and Yukito, who merely frowned.
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Eriol was in his study, sitting on his red, supposedly throne- like armchair and was just staring into space, brooding, when Advisor Lucas hastily came in and bowed before him.
"Prince Eriol, you are requested to be in the throne room. The Queen of Winter Soliloquy is waiting for you, along with King Fujitaka..."
Eriol frowned.
'Did something really happened to Daidouji-san?' Ever since he had that dream in the garden, he couldn't help but worry for the Princess who had stolen his heart.
Outloud, he spoke, "I'll be there in a minute."
When he reached the throne room however, not just Queen Sonomi and King Fujitaka were there, practically the whole of the Winter Soliloquy royalty were present and all wore grim expression. The look on the Queen told Eriol that he was about to be slashed verbally. His own King looked at him pensively.
"Eriol, what is going on? Queen Daidouji would never stepped onto our grounds without a perfect reason. It must have been a very grave situation for the Queen to come down here personally."
"Where did you hide my daughter?" Sonomi asked bluntly. Everyone could just detect a hint of sharpness in her tone. Eriol winced mentally.
"I am sorry Daidouji-sama. I did not have your daughter with me, I was in the Palace all this time," He answered politely.
"Please do not try to deny it, Keroberos had seen you with her in OUR royal garden and he had personally witness her kidnapping," Sonomi snapped. Eriol flinched slightly at the word 'kidnapping'.
"Eriol-sama certainly did not kidnap Daidouji-san for he loved her too much to want to hurt her. And he was in the Quintessence gardens all the while for the whole day, we could be his witness," another voice spoke up. It was a clear, gentle deep voice and with a distinctive air to it. Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon both stood in the entrance of the throne room, looking back at the Queen, a fierce protective light shone in both the guardians' baleful eyes. The Queen just glare back evenly.
"Both of you are his creations, naturally you would defend your master. If he was in the Quintessence garden the whole day then how would you explain what Keroberos saw?" Sonomi had almost scoffed. Ruby Moon was about to defend her master again but Eriol held up a hand to silence her.
"There is an explanation for this, Daidouji-sama and I suspect it had connections with what happened in my past life," Eriol replied quietly without a hint of emotion on his face. Well, that was because all rationalism had left his brain and he was dead worried about what might happened to his beloved. Mechanically, he led them to the sitting room for the guests and gestured for them to sit before he sat down himself on one of the armchair, with his guardians standing on either side behind him. Eriol rubbed his temples with his fingers before he got down to telling the Winter Soliloquy royalty about the contents of Clow's journal, his recent dream that occurred a few hours ago and lastly, to his suspicions.
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'Ne Suppi-chan, I'm very worried for Eriol-sama. He's too...calm,' Ruby Moon thought, sending the mental thought telepathically to her companion. For once, Spinel didn't seem to mind her calling him 'Suppi-chan'. Instead, he nodded his head mentally.
'Yes, I suppose you are right, Ruby Moon. Eriol-sama seems too calm for his own good. I have never seen him act like this in my entire life. It looks like whoever had held Daidouji-san captive is going to get Eriol-sama's wrath when they meet each other,' Spinel thought analytically.
'I really pity the person who's going to get it,' Ruby Moon thought dryly.
Both guardians sweatdrop nervously when Eriol turned around slightly to look at them straight in the eyes.
'It's impolite to talk about your master behind his back...and you are right, I will personally see to it that the person who kidnapped Daidouji-san will end up in hades and also for the fact that he impersonate me to make the Queen thinks I'm the one who kidnap her and leave a bad impression...' Eriol mused, smirking mentally. Both guardians glanced at each other and sighed.
'Eriol-sama never seems to lose his nasty sense of humor even when in the face of a disaster.'
'I never consider this a disaster. That person is too much of a coward so much so that he goes to such an extent of kidnapping Daidouji-san just to get back at me,' In that moment, Eriol's tone had change from amusement to that of one filled with cold fury.
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Tomoyo yawned and her eyes fluttered a few times before they opened.
'I'm so tired, maybe I can sleep in a little more?' She was starting to feel her eyes drooped when it suddenly opened yet again, but this time with confusion before it changed to that of dreaded realisation. She was in an unfamiliar surrounding.
'Wait a minute, this isn't my room, where am I?' She thought, sweatdropping profusely as the first pang of panick starting to hit on her full blast and she just barely kept her emotions under control as she tried hard to go back to what had happened before she woke up to this strange surrounding.
~Flashback~
She was about to go back to the palace as it was turning dusk but stopped short when someone stepped out from around the bush that he was hidding from. Arashi's journal fell from her hands with a dull thud on the clobberstone ground that she was standing on.
"Hii...Hiiragizawa-sama, wh...what are you doing here?" She cursed herself silently for not being able to keep her tongue straight whenever she was around him. The dark-haired Prince just chuckled lightly before stepping up so that he was directly in front of her, closing the distance between both of them. He could just denote a slight blush that had steal across her pale, translucent complexion when he neared her. He reached out and lifted her chin with one of his hands.
"It is because I miss your presence. Without you by my side, I feel...empty inside,"[hey it rhymes!-^_^-], he breathed huskily as he reached up and placed his other hand on his chest with splayed fingers, where his heart was. He just had the satisfaction of seeing her blushed harder [if that is even possible] and also to see the look of despair and torment entered her beautiful mauve eyes.
And he saw that she was about to speak so he bend down casually and captured her soft, red lips in his to cut off what she was going to say. He knew he had won when he felt the Princess yield to his kiss and smirked when she collasped, unconscious, into his awaiting arms...
~End Flashback~
Tomoyo gasped. Was that really him? He was so different from the normally gentle, if not pensive Prince that she knew a few days ago at her masked ball. This Eriol seems flamboyant, almost...seductive, with an aura of danger and darkness surrounding him.
Her thoughts were rudely disrupted when the door to her room, or rather the room that she's currently reside in opened slowly with an audible creak.
"Hmm...must get the servants to oil the hinges sometime," The deep, alluring voice muttered amused. Tomoyo turned towards the voice, seemingly to be attracted to it, like a moth to a flame.
The man turned his attention from the door hinges to the former sleeping beauty who is currently sitting up in bed, with a shocked look on her face.
"I see you have awaken, lover of the reincarnation of Clow Read," The man greeted with a slight, flourished bow.
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~PLum BLoSsOm~ : Well, I was quite upset that there are so few reviews, in fact I think there was only one, for my previous chapter...so I beg of you pple to review after you read, cuz I'm beginning to think that I have probably lost my touch with my inspirations...but I will post the chapters up anyway...And I would like to thank not applicable, Fuu2 and possibly December-sins cuz I have seen their reviews in practically every chapters that I have posted up...