A small tear escaped Ice's eyes as she saw Tomo lay there, dead. She never would have thought something like this would have happened to him. She didn't know what to do any more, so she leaned against Xing's shoulder. He looked at her sorrowfully. He was perhaps the only person besides Yang-Chan in there who knew how much she had loved him. Amazed at how Meiling was handling it, Ice looked up to see her face. Her eyes were glassy, but yet determined to end this nightmare tonight.
"Don't you two get it? I'm immortal." Yang-Chan said as she walked up to Meiling and Syaoran. Meiling cautiously stepped back, not knowing what tricks she was going to play this time. Syaoran guarded Meiling with his sword in front of her, making sure Yang-Chan wouldn't do anything to harm her. He didn't care if he got hurt, he deserved it, for treating her so badly in the past.
"You're no goddess." Syaoran spat looking at her menacingly. "You're not even a nymph."
Yang-Chan stopped and looked at Syaoran. "So, you think your tough? What if I just so happen to tell your so called "Cherry Blossom" what happened between you and Meiling earlier."
Sakura looked up curiously at the back of Syaoran's head from where she was being kept. "Did you hurt her badly?" she asked. Yang-Chan looked behind Syaoran to Sakura and smiled, before looking back at Syaoran.
"She has no clue. Too bad you forgot to clear your mind huh?" Yang-Chan said slowly. "Since you seem to be having a problem trying to think of a way to tell her, I'll do it for you…"
Syaoran's eyes became wide. Meiling whirled her head around to look at Yang-Chan with pleading eyes. "Don't." he said threateningly.
"Don't what?" Sakura asked confused at the situation. Xing, Ice, and Shinta had puzzled faces as well. "What is it?"
"You see Sakura, Syaoran doesn't love you any more."
"What do you mean? It's not true, is it, Syaoran?" Sakura asked trembling. Why would Syaoran stop loving her? It didn't make sense. He had told her before that she was his number one. He even told her that they'd be together forever. But when she looked at Syaoran's face, he avoided eye contact, pretending to see something interesting on the ground. Small tears started to fall on Sakura's face. No this is just a bad dream…I'll wake up and find Syaoran smiling at me, telling me that we'll be together forever.
"But it's not a dream Sakura. And do you know who he loves now?" Meiling's heart started to beat faster. She didn't want Sakura to know this way, and she was sure Syaoran was thinking the same thing. Meiling went through the same pain once, and she didn't want Sakura to go through the same thing.
Sakura was afraid to know, but yet curious at the same time. "No, I don't know who it is."
"She's in this room you know. Known Syaoran all of her life, and he knew her all his life as well."
No, not…It can't be…Meiling… Sakura thought. She looked at Meiling, who stared back at her with sorrowful eyes. Anger was welling up inside of her and pain. "I hate you Meiling Li!" Sakura yelled. "Do you know how I feel now?!"
"You feel as if the whole world could collapse right now. Like death is the only way out, but yet you know at the same time, that you should feel happy for him. You feel that no matter how much you yell or say that you hate me, you can't because deep down your happy for me. You feel as if you'll never stop crying over him, like you'll be crying your whole life over him. You feel as if you'll never get over this, and you probably won't until you meet someone better than him, and who can compete with true first love?" Meiling said slowly.
"How'd…you know?" Sakura asked shocked, silent tears still coming out of her eyes, going down her face.
"That's exactly how I felt when you took Syaoran five years ago." she said slowly.
"If you want Syaoran back, all you have to do is kill Meiling, and then he'll come back to you. Promise…" Yang-Chan said slowly. "Isn't that what you want?"
There was a moment of silence, and then, "No, I won't kill Meiling. Like she said, no matter how much I think I hate her, I don't. I'll just be happy that they're happy, just like her." Sakura said full of confidence. She was no longer crying, but stared at Yang-Chan with determination.
Yang-Chan was getting angry. "Fine, then I guess I'll have to do it myself." The dagger that had been used on Tomo, flew into Yang-Chan's hands. His blood was all along the blade of it.
Music to Utada Hikaru's "Simple and Clean" begins
You're giving me too many things
Lately you're all I need
You smiled at me and said,
Using her mind, the dagger flew toward Meiling. Syaoran blocked it with his sword, but it came flying back. Meiling dodged the next attack by using a back flip. The dagger was coming around for a third attack, and Meiling tried to dodge this one, but instead it hit her hand, and went flying out of the window and into the ground where it couldn't be budged. That was only capable of Power to do, but somehow she did it.
Surprised, she stared at her hands, and all eyes were on her now. Yang-Chan was getting nervous. She tapped into her powers somehow… she thought, eyeing her.
Don't get me wrong I love
But does that mean I have to meet your father?
When we are older you'll understand
What I meant when I said "No,
I don't think life is quite that simple"
"Are you going to give up?" Syaoran asked.
"No, I don't do things that simple or easy." Yang-Chan told him.
"Then take me on." He threw down his sword. "No magic powers. The winner takes all."
"Fine." she said smirking. He was so sure of himself, thinking that she didn't know how to fight. And as for the magic powers, well, she lied. Both got into fighting stances. She tried to read his mind to see what he was going to use, but found out that he had cleared his mind. Her eyes were wide with shock.
"I told you no magic powers." Syaoran said looking at her surprised face.
When you walk away
You don't hear me say please
Oh baby, don't go
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go
He ran up, starting off with a punch, but she quickly blocked it just in time. Meiling watched them, hit, block, flip, kick. Hit, block, kick, hit, flip. Block, block, and another kick. She was worried. It seemed that Syaoran was taking all the hits, even though it was really Yang-Chan who was on the defensive. But Syaoran was the one running out of breath. A dance, that's what it was. A small deadly dance was all they were doing, but no matter how you put it, Meiling was still so scared that Syaoran would lose, and everybody was afraid as well.
Syaoran's sword started to slowly lift up from the ground, and nobody noticed because they were too entranced by the fighting. It hovered a few inches above ground and started to head for Syaoran. Meiling saw it from the corner of her eye and, tapping into her powers again, she ran like Dash and grabbed it just in time.
Syaoran stopped to see what was going on and saw the sword just inches from his leg. Yang-Chan took the opportunity to kick him right in the face before knocking him down with a punch in the stomach. Gasping for air, he slowly coughed up, "You…you…cheat…cheated…"
"It's a habit. You know that habits are very hard to quit." she said innocently, before kicking him in the side.
Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before
"It ends now." Yang-Chan said. She held her hand up and her nails grew sharp like small swords. She started to thrust them into the vulnerable Syaoran, who was still trying to regain some air and strength to dodge the attack. Meiling stopped her.
"You want to play that way, then let's play." Meiling said. Syaoran's sword was in her hands and she went into fighting stance. Whatever destiny had in store of her, she wasn't going to be scared about it anymore.
Yang-Chan came at her. Meiling tried dodging it, but she got sliced a little on her face. A small drop of blood fell from her face. Surprised that it wasn't healing, Yang-Chan explained.
"The dagger, the sword, and my nails are the only things that can kill a vampire or a day-walker. But they're useless on me."
"Let's see then." Meiling whirled around, catching Yang-Chan by surprise, and sliced her in her arm and a little on her side. Blood came out of the wounds, but they weren't healing.
"What?! Shinta used it on me and- you must need magic to harm me. Fine, I won't let that happen again." Turing her other hand into another set of deadly nails, she got into fighting stance. Meiling had seen Syaoran train for so long, that it came natural to her to go into the same stance as he would. Yang-Chan thrust forward, but Meiling blocked it quickly with the sword. The sound of metal against metal filled the room as each girl worked off all their anger. Meiling started to strike Yang-Chan, but Yang-Chan blocked it with one hand, and sliced her side with the other. Crying out in agony, and trying to stop the blood with her free hand, she knew she was vulnerable. She had to think of something fast or else she was going to end up just like Tomo. Yang-Chan flipped up in the air and landed behind her to thrust it in Meiling's back, but Meiling knew she'd land behind her, since she used that way of attacking an opponent who was down plenty of times in opponents, and thrust the sword to the back. It hit her dead in her stomach. A large puddle of red started seeping through her clothes and she started to gasp for air. Her body became limp, and she collapsed onto the floor.
Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before
"Simple and Clean" ends
"MEILING!" Syaoran yelled running to her. He finally regained air and his strength during the long fight. She started to fall, but he caught her just in time. Sakura, Shinta, Xing, and Ice all came up to her.
"Are you o.k.?" Sakura asked her. Meiling only nodded her head, and grimaced in pain.
Shinta removed Meiling's hand to reveal her wound. "It's deep. We need to get her to a hospital as soon as possible." The sun's rays started peaking through the room, to reveal that everybody was no longer a vampire. They're eyes were back to normal.
"Sakura, you're going to have to take Meiling there since you have Fly." Xing said. Sakura nodded. Taking out her key, she quickly transformed it into the staff, and used Fly. After using Power so she could carry Meiling with ease, she flew off to the hospital.
"Do you think she'll make it?" Ice asked quietly.
"Yeah. I'm sure she will." Shinta said to reassure not only Ice, but the rest of them as well, including her.
A/N: This will be the last song chapter of the whole story. Yup. Only three chapters had songs in them. Hope you liked this chapter! Only one more and the story is over! I know, it's sad, but all good things must come to an end. I used "Simple and Clean" just because I got addicted to it over night when my friend brought over Kingdom Hearts and showed me the beginning. I blame her for me using it. And as a disclaimer, I don't own the song, it belongs to Utada Hikaru. Anyways, thank you to all who reviewed!!! Please, review this chapter!