Chapter 7

Sakura could hear the slow dripping of water against the floor. She had a headache. She pulled herself up to find herself in what she thought was a room. She saw nothing but darkness everywhere she looked. Was she dead? She heard a noise to her left and quickly looked that way. A person had appeared in front of her.

"Where am I?" She asked frantically.

"You? You are in my lair. In another world." The person snickered.

"Another world?" She asked. Her eyes went blank. Was she really in her home world? It was so dark and it felt so empty.

"Yes, you are here so I can kill you. Help these days are just pathetic, don't you agree?" The person charged at her and grabbed her throat. Sakura winced from the pain. She couldn't breathe. Was she going to die right here? She tried to say a name but it wouldn't come out the first time. It came out as a whisper the second time, the name 'Li'.

"L-L-Li." She tried to say over and over. With her last bit of strength she screamed, "LI!!!!" It was a dying scream. She felt pain well up in her. Her skin started heating up. She was dying. Spontaneous combustion? What ever it was, Sakura cried from the pain. This scene slowly faded away and she heard a sound that resembled a sword cutting something. She felt pain shoot through her. She heard something, someone calling her name over and over.

"Sakura. Sakura. SAKURA!" Sakura sat up straight in horror. She looked around at her surroundings. She was in her bed at home and the guy with dark hair and gold highlights was sitting next to her trying to wake her up. He smiled. "Sakura, thank God."

She grabbed onto him. She was so scared and he knew that. He held her tightly. She was breathing hard and her heart was skipping beats. She couldn't calm down for some reason. She just couldn't get over the sense of doom she had. The mysterious guy pulled away from her and touched her forehead.

"You have a fever." he said. He got up and Sakura tugged on his shirt. She didn't want him to leave her alone. He sat back down and said to her, "Don't worry. Nothing will happen to you as long as I'm around. I promise."

He got up and walked out her door and downstairs. She knew that if someone was home, they would surely see him but she couldn't do anything about it now. There was a knock on her window and it opened.

"Sakura?" Li's voice said soothingly.

"Li..." Sakura said from her bed. Li came into her room and found her on her bed. He sat on it next to her.

"Sakura, are you okay?" He asked. He lifted his hand to her head. "You have a fever." He got up and was about to leave the room too. Sakura didn't want him to leave too.

"Li. Don't... Leave." She said. He came back and sat down in the chair beside her bed. She was relieved.

"So what happened? Your brother called me. He said you were saying my name in your sleep."

"I was not sleeping, nor dreaming. It was real. Like a.... premonition." She said shuddering at the sight of that reality all over again.

"A premonition? All the Clow cards are collected but you still see the future in dreams, don't you?" Li said.

"It was not a dream Li. It was real. See!" She rolled down her pajama collar around her neck. There were two red handprints on her neck that looked freshly made.

"Whoa. What happened there?" Li asked alarmed.

"Someone was trying to kill me." Sakura said simply. After she said that, the other guy, who claimed to be Li, walked in with a glass of ice-cold water. The younger Li jumped out of his chair and looked at the older Li.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"I am you, Li." The mysterious guy said.

"You're me? Ha, how can you be me?" Li said.

"If you don't believe me, how about I give you some facts about yourself that no one else knows?"

TO BE CONTINUED