Cherry: Sssshhhh!!! [holds finger up to her lips and whispers] I'm trying
to get Tina to update a new chapter!
[She sees Tina sitting down in a chair, studying her Math.] [Cherry walks quietly until she's behind Tina before revealing a bat and hitting Tina soundly on the head.]
Tina: AAAAAAHHHHHHH! [Faints]
Cherry: [Snicker] Well, THAT'll get her attention away from her work. . .
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"Xiao Lang, are you sure we should be here?" Mei Lin asked. They were standing outside of the huge mansion that, according to the information Syaoran got from the principal, belonged to Sakura and Tomoyo. He looked at her, frowning.
"Yes, but why shouldn't we be here? It was partly my fault why she was injured and I want to see that she's alright."
Mei Lin snorted, crossing her arms. "Yeah right. . . Which explains why we're hiding our aura's even though they both don't have an aura. Why don't you just heal her, o great Dragon, and save your fussing for someone who needs it?"
"I thought she was your friend?" he asked.
"Yeah she is, but you didn't fuss over me when you 'accidentally' sliced my arm during a spar. I don't see why you have to be so worried over a small bite when you didn't even blink when you sliced me." She paused and grinned evilly at her cousin.
"Unless, of course, dear cousin. . .you have a thing for green eyes. . ."
Syaoran flushed and he crossed his arms over his own chest, looking away. Mei Lin smiled and pushed the doorbell before leaning on the wall. He turned to her, horrified.
Suddenly the door opened and they both looked. Mei Lin gasped.
A young man with long white hair cascading over his shoulder in a loose braid had opened the door and was now looking at them curiously.
"May I help you?" he asked politely. Mei Lin's eyes took in his huge but lean frame. The guy had to be at LEAST 6 feet tall! He was wearing a loose gray shirt and light blue slacks.
'Hubba, hubba!' she thought. 'What magazine did YOU crawl out of?!'
Syaoran scowled. This guy was in Kinomoto's house and was dressed so casually. THAT was bad enough, but to have him affect his cousin as well? His engaged, very-much-in-love-with-Jamie cousin?
"Yes, is Kinomoto home?" Syaoran asked coldly, dragging his drooling baby cousin backwards and away from the tall man in front of them. Though, Syaoran was EASILY taller then the other man. . . Mei Lin didn't even complain, dumbstruck as she was.
The man blinked at them before smiling widely.
"Yes, she's here. May I ask who's calling?"
Mei Lin snapped out of her daze and tugged at the hand attached to her wrist. She grinned at the poor guy who looked confused.
"Mei Lin and Xiao Lang Li," she said, trying to move closer to the hot guy. Syaoran sighed and studied him closely. He didn't have even a hint of an aura, yet he looked physically fit.
Meanwhile, the man's features closed down when he heard their names. Oh, he was still smiling, but you could no longer read any emotion on his face and he seemed.cold.
"Sakura!" he called inside. "There are two Li's at your door!"
Swift footfalls were heard and her was holding and irate Cerberus an instant later. Kero snarled and tried to get at Syaoran. It was HIS fault that Kero had accidentally bitten his mistress, his and that damn she-wolf of his! Kero wanted nothing more to do with him. AFTER he chewed him to Kingdom Come!
"Kero, calm down!" a voice called from behind the door. Sakura stepped out a moment later, dressed in a blue tank top and matching blue slacks, her right arm in a sling. She stopped when she say Syaoran and Mei Lin in the doorway.
"Li," she said, smiling at Syaoran. "Won't you come in? We were just having a little snack and of course you are both very welcome to join us."
"Thanks Sakura! But who's this handsome guy?" Mei Lin asked, looking him over again.
Sakura laughed when he blushed and nodded to her. She dragged Syaoran and Mei Lin inside, closing the door behind them and taking Mei Lin's arm lightly. Using her good arm of course.
"I'm so sorry Mei Lin! This is Kinomoto Yukito, my brother-in-law. He surprised Tomoyo and I earlier by showing up all of a sudden. "Yukito-kun, you already know Li, Mei Lin and Li, Syaoran."
"Yuroshikune! It's nice to meet you," Yukito said, bowing to the both of them.
"Sakura, I thought you said you didn't have any sisters?" Mei Lin asked, confused. Sakura giggled, letting go of Mei Lin's arm and taking Yukito's. Yukito grinned, silently giving her permission to explain while drawing her slowly out of the room for Sakura's 'dramatic exit' as Tomoyo liked to call it.
"I don't!" Sakura exclaimed over her should, willingly walking out of the room with Yukito. Mei Lin and Syaoran froze, putting two and two together. She paled when she figured out her new friend's cryptic comment.
"But that means. . ." she whispered, her eyes going wide. Looking to her cousin, she noticed that he'd figured the same thing she did, if his eyes popping out of his eyesockets were any indication.
"He's married to her brother!" they said together. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cherry: Well, that's that! see, I got her to do it didn't I?
Fox: Yes, but I don't think many people out there appreciate Yukito-san being gay. but I KNOW I do!
Yukito: [blushes]
Touya:[ pops out from nowhere] Don't you dare hit on my husband!!!
Everyone sweatdrops.
Sakura: that just sounded so totally wrong man.I mean, If he's your husband, that makes you his what???
Touya: [sweatdrops] I guess you're right.
Sakura: of course I'm right! I've ALWAYS been the smarter twin!
Cherry: [clears throat loudly] Well people. since we've done with THAT~ I just want ya'll to have some fun and read this next part. it's not, I repeat.NOT in ANY way connected to THIS story. Well, it's sort of another legend about the Phoenix and Dragon alright?
Tina: I think they got it Cher. Places everyone!
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Sakura sighed. She was back at her temporary home.
No, not home. merely a house born from magic.
Home is where the heart is.
At least. that's what people said.
No one even so much as suspected that they were not of the Li clan. So many of their members had lost their magic due to unapproved marriages. Sakura and Tomoyo were not in the least suspicious to them, aside from the fact that Sakura could fight as well as their leader.
Syaoran.
He'd followed them the whole day or so it seemed to her. He was in almost every single class she and Tomoyo had. Except gym.thank Kami for small favors!
She sighed again, sinking into a large comfy chair and clsing her eyes.
It wasn't fair for her to be sent here like she had, forced to leave behind everything familiar to her to go on a stupid mission.Not fair at all.
XXXFLASHBACKXXX
"I don't understand why I must be the one to go!" Sakura exclaimed. Her grandmother, an elegantly dressed old woman, gazed at her fondly.
"These are dangerous times, my dear. You've heard the stories. we must be sure that they don't have the Sceptre. If they do, they might find a way to use it against us."
"But we don't even know if the sceptre is REAL, and you're sending the three of use deep into the enemy camp!" Sakura retorted hotly. Her grandmother's eyes held hers. They had the same eyes, deep sea green with hidden depths of passion barely visible. Only her grandmother's, the Lady Yukari, had bright amber flecks rimmed around her iris'. Pain flickered deep within.
"Sakura.child.listen to me.YOU are the last of our direct line. The last Phoenix.There is no one else now. As much as it hurts to tell you this.I don't want anymore bloodshed. They kn-"
"They will kill us! You send us to the slaughter!" she injected, clenching her hands in fury and releasing them only to fist them once more. But Lady Yukari had had enough.
"No! I do not!" Lady Yukari roared, silencing Sakura's protests. "Listen, hatchling.The Phoenix and Dragon were one tribe.one clan.once. The desire for power destroyed that clan, tearing it in two."
Sakura gasped.
"No! It can't be. you aren't saying?!"
"We all came from one person, one ancestor.Clow Reed."
"I concede, my Lady," she mumbled, sitting down. "I will steal the sceptre. Even though I understand not why."
Lady Yukari's gaze softened.
"You will understand one day, little one. But not today. Hurry back to your training."
Sakura bowed and had turned to leave when her grandmother's voice stopped her.
"Hatchling, not all Dragons are evil.Only a handful really are.the rest have merely become cold and harsh with training. But listen well. There is one that you must watch. The Little Wolf himself. HE will provide your challenge." She paused, unsure for a moment. But she continued.
"One of them will help you, help your cause.We do not wish them ill.merely to save them from the snake in their midst."
Sakura bowed low. "I understand Grandmother." And she left to go back to her training. Lady Yukari sighed as soon as her hard-headed granddaughter was gone.
"Be safe, Hatchling. You are the last."
"Yukari." a voice said. She turned around, smiling ruefully. A man, glowing a deep navy blue, stood behind her holding a staff.
"Clow," she greeted softly. He was wearing his usual attire when he came to visit her, blue robes with a blue magician's hat perched on his head.
"I take it you told her?" he asked.
"Yes. And she did not take it well." She shook her head. "Such a hatchling filled with anger and rage, Clow."
"She has reason enough."
"She does," Lady Yukari agreed, moving to sit down in a soft chair. "But I'm afraid the rage will consume her soul soon.She has to meet the Little Wolf soon doesn't she?"
Clow Reed nodded, not moving from his place. Lady Yukari sighed.
"I can't bear it Clow! I long to tell her that she will bear the Dragon so she will not be so bitter!"
"She might just sacrifice herself so as not to bring anymore dragons into the world."
"She would.I know my granddaughter, Clow."
Suddenly, she smiled.
"And I know that the Little Wolf will make her happy. He is as stubborn as she is!"
"We must go now, Yukari. Time grows short.Leave them what you must."
"I leave them only my feather."
Clow nodded knowingly.
"Wise to leave your power with the hatchling. She will need it and it will help the Wolf find her."
Lady Yukari placed the glowing orange feather she had plucked out from the great expanse of wings on her back on the low table, a tear slipping down to land on it. It alone contained all her power.
"Come, my daughter. The hatchling will mature tonight." he held out his hand. "As one Phoenix fades, so another rises and takes her place. only."
"The line ends with the next Phoenix. I know Father.I know."
She looked at him, tears streaming down her face. "We have done well haven't we? Tell me we have made a difference! That our lines does not fade for nothing!" she cried. He hugged her tightly.
"You have. Come. It is time."
They walked away, fading from sight until they were no more and nothing remained.all save for a single glowing feather.
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Well? Should this be another Legend? Like legend 2 or something? It does say legends right??? REVIEW!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
[She sees Tina sitting down in a chair, studying her Math.] [Cherry walks quietly until she's behind Tina before revealing a bat and hitting Tina soundly on the head.]
Tina: AAAAAAHHHHHHH! [Faints]
Cherry: [Snicker] Well, THAT'll get her attention away from her work. . .
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"Xiao Lang, are you sure we should be here?" Mei Lin asked. They were standing outside of the huge mansion that, according to the information Syaoran got from the principal, belonged to Sakura and Tomoyo. He looked at her, frowning.
"Yes, but why shouldn't we be here? It was partly my fault why she was injured and I want to see that she's alright."
Mei Lin snorted, crossing her arms. "Yeah right. . . Which explains why we're hiding our aura's even though they both don't have an aura. Why don't you just heal her, o great Dragon, and save your fussing for someone who needs it?"
"I thought she was your friend?" he asked.
"Yeah she is, but you didn't fuss over me when you 'accidentally' sliced my arm during a spar. I don't see why you have to be so worried over a small bite when you didn't even blink when you sliced me." She paused and grinned evilly at her cousin.
"Unless, of course, dear cousin. . .you have a thing for green eyes. . ."
Syaoran flushed and he crossed his arms over his own chest, looking away. Mei Lin smiled and pushed the doorbell before leaning on the wall. He turned to her, horrified.
Suddenly the door opened and they both looked. Mei Lin gasped.
A young man with long white hair cascading over his shoulder in a loose braid had opened the door and was now looking at them curiously.
"May I help you?" he asked politely. Mei Lin's eyes took in his huge but lean frame. The guy had to be at LEAST 6 feet tall! He was wearing a loose gray shirt and light blue slacks.
'Hubba, hubba!' she thought. 'What magazine did YOU crawl out of?!'
Syaoran scowled. This guy was in Kinomoto's house and was dressed so casually. THAT was bad enough, but to have him affect his cousin as well? His engaged, very-much-in-love-with-Jamie cousin?
"Yes, is Kinomoto home?" Syaoran asked coldly, dragging his drooling baby cousin backwards and away from the tall man in front of them. Though, Syaoran was EASILY taller then the other man. . . Mei Lin didn't even complain, dumbstruck as she was.
The man blinked at them before smiling widely.
"Yes, she's here. May I ask who's calling?"
Mei Lin snapped out of her daze and tugged at the hand attached to her wrist. She grinned at the poor guy who looked confused.
"Mei Lin and Xiao Lang Li," she said, trying to move closer to the hot guy. Syaoran sighed and studied him closely. He didn't have even a hint of an aura, yet he looked physically fit.
Meanwhile, the man's features closed down when he heard their names. Oh, he was still smiling, but you could no longer read any emotion on his face and he seemed.cold.
"Sakura!" he called inside. "There are two Li's at your door!"
Swift footfalls were heard and her was holding and irate Cerberus an instant later. Kero snarled and tried to get at Syaoran. It was HIS fault that Kero had accidentally bitten his mistress, his and that damn she-wolf of his! Kero wanted nothing more to do with him. AFTER he chewed him to Kingdom Come!
"Kero, calm down!" a voice called from behind the door. Sakura stepped out a moment later, dressed in a blue tank top and matching blue slacks, her right arm in a sling. She stopped when she say Syaoran and Mei Lin in the doorway.
"Li," she said, smiling at Syaoran. "Won't you come in? We were just having a little snack and of course you are both very welcome to join us."
"Thanks Sakura! But who's this handsome guy?" Mei Lin asked, looking him over again.
Sakura laughed when he blushed and nodded to her. She dragged Syaoran and Mei Lin inside, closing the door behind them and taking Mei Lin's arm lightly. Using her good arm of course.
"I'm so sorry Mei Lin! This is Kinomoto Yukito, my brother-in-law. He surprised Tomoyo and I earlier by showing up all of a sudden. "Yukito-kun, you already know Li, Mei Lin and Li, Syaoran."
"Yuroshikune! It's nice to meet you," Yukito said, bowing to the both of them.
"Sakura, I thought you said you didn't have any sisters?" Mei Lin asked, confused. Sakura giggled, letting go of Mei Lin's arm and taking Yukito's. Yukito grinned, silently giving her permission to explain while drawing her slowly out of the room for Sakura's 'dramatic exit' as Tomoyo liked to call it.
"I don't!" Sakura exclaimed over her should, willingly walking out of the room with Yukito. Mei Lin and Syaoran froze, putting two and two together. She paled when she figured out her new friend's cryptic comment.
"But that means. . ." she whispered, her eyes going wide. Looking to her cousin, she noticed that he'd figured the same thing she did, if his eyes popping out of his eyesockets were any indication.
"He's married to her brother!" they said together. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cherry: Well, that's that! see, I got her to do it didn't I?
Fox: Yes, but I don't think many people out there appreciate Yukito-san being gay. but I KNOW I do!
Yukito: [blushes]
Touya:[ pops out from nowhere] Don't you dare hit on my husband!!!
Everyone sweatdrops.
Sakura: that just sounded so totally wrong man.I mean, If he's your husband, that makes you his what???
Touya: [sweatdrops] I guess you're right.
Sakura: of course I'm right! I've ALWAYS been the smarter twin!
Cherry: [clears throat loudly] Well people. since we've done with THAT~ I just want ya'll to have some fun and read this next part. it's not, I repeat.NOT in ANY way connected to THIS story. Well, it's sort of another legend about the Phoenix and Dragon alright?
Tina: I think they got it Cher. Places everyone!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sakura sighed. She was back at her temporary home.
No, not home. merely a house born from magic.
Home is where the heart is.
At least. that's what people said.
No one even so much as suspected that they were not of the Li clan. So many of their members had lost their magic due to unapproved marriages. Sakura and Tomoyo were not in the least suspicious to them, aside from the fact that Sakura could fight as well as their leader.
Syaoran.
He'd followed them the whole day or so it seemed to her. He was in almost every single class she and Tomoyo had. Except gym.thank Kami for small favors!
She sighed again, sinking into a large comfy chair and clsing her eyes.
It wasn't fair for her to be sent here like she had, forced to leave behind everything familiar to her to go on a stupid mission.Not fair at all.
XXXFLASHBACKXXX
"I don't understand why I must be the one to go!" Sakura exclaimed. Her grandmother, an elegantly dressed old woman, gazed at her fondly.
"These are dangerous times, my dear. You've heard the stories. we must be sure that they don't have the Sceptre. If they do, they might find a way to use it against us."
"But we don't even know if the sceptre is REAL, and you're sending the three of use deep into the enemy camp!" Sakura retorted hotly. Her grandmother's eyes held hers. They had the same eyes, deep sea green with hidden depths of passion barely visible. Only her grandmother's, the Lady Yukari, had bright amber flecks rimmed around her iris'. Pain flickered deep within.
"Sakura.child.listen to me.YOU are the last of our direct line. The last Phoenix.There is no one else now. As much as it hurts to tell you this.I don't want anymore bloodshed. They kn-"
"They will kill us! You send us to the slaughter!" she injected, clenching her hands in fury and releasing them only to fist them once more. But Lady Yukari had had enough.
"No! I do not!" Lady Yukari roared, silencing Sakura's protests. "Listen, hatchling.The Phoenix and Dragon were one tribe.one clan.once. The desire for power destroyed that clan, tearing it in two."
Sakura gasped.
"No! It can't be. you aren't saying?!"
"We all came from one person, one ancestor.Clow Reed."
"I concede, my Lady," she mumbled, sitting down. "I will steal the sceptre. Even though I understand not why."
Lady Yukari's gaze softened.
"You will understand one day, little one. But not today. Hurry back to your training."
Sakura bowed and had turned to leave when her grandmother's voice stopped her.
"Hatchling, not all Dragons are evil.Only a handful really are.the rest have merely become cold and harsh with training. But listen well. There is one that you must watch. The Little Wolf himself. HE will provide your challenge." She paused, unsure for a moment. But she continued.
"One of them will help you, help your cause.We do not wish them ill.merely to save them from the snake in their midst."
Sakura bowed low. "I understand Grandmother." And she left to go back to her training. Lady Yukari sighed as soon as her hard-headed granddaughter was gone.
"Be safe, Hatchling. You are the last."
"Yukari." a voice said. She turned around, smiling ruefully. A man, glowing a deep navy blue, stood behind her holding a staff.
"Clow," she greeted softly. He was wearing his usual attire when he came to visit her, blue robes with a blue magician's hat perched on his head.
"I take it you told her?" he asked.
"Yes. And she did not take it well." She shook her head. "Such a hatchling filled with anger and rage, Clow."
"She has reason enough."
"She does," Lady Yukari agreed, moving to sit down in a soft chair. "But I'm afraid the rage will consume her soul soon.She has to meet the Little Wolf soon doesn't she?"
Clow Reed nodded, not moving from his place. Lady Yukari sighed.
"I can't bear it Clow! I long to tell her that she will bear the Dragon so she will not be so bitter!"
"She might just sacrifice herself so as not to bring anymore dragons into the world."
"She would.I know my granddaughter, Clow."
Suddenly, she smiled.
"And I know that the Little Wolf will make her happy. He is as stubborn as she is!"
"We must go now, Yukari. Time grows short.Leave them what you must."
"I leave them only my feather."
Clow nodded knowingly.
"Wise to leave your power with the hatchling. She will need it and it will help the Wolf find her."
Lady Yukari placed the glowing orange feather she had plucked out from the great expanse of wings on her back on the low table, a tear slipping down to land on it. It alone contained all her power.
"Come, my daughter. The hatchling will mature tonight." he held out his hand. "As one Phoenix fades, so another rises and takes her place. only."
"The line ends with the next Phoenix. I know Father.I know."
She looked at him, tears streaming down her face. "We have done well haven't we? Tell me we have made a difference! That our lines does not fade for nothing!" she cried. He hugged her tightly.
"You have. Come. It is time."
They walked away, fading from sight until they were no more and nothing remained.all save for a single glowing feather.
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Well? Should this be another Legend? Like legend 2 or something? It does say legends right??? REVIEW!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!