Chapter 15

"Sakura? Sakura!" The Li from the future continued to scream. Sakura was dying, a slow painful death. She was burning up and she could not breathe. Li had to save her. Evil forces or no evil forces, he had to do something to get out and save her. "Sakura, hold on, just hold on!" He cried.

Li took a deep breath and concentrated. He always came out of her heart, but her heart was slowly fading to nothing. He couldn't let that happen. He glowed with shades of light surrounding him. Another breath and then a soft yell. The yell grew to a scream, and the scream, it grew to a deafening shriek of pain and suffering. He opened his eyes.

"Sakura? Sakura!" He said weakly. Her face was remained in a horror struck circle. He tapped her face a couple of times and then lowered himself to her chest. Her heart was no longer beating.

He cursed. He placed his hand over her throat. Lights formed around his hand and her throat and it was magically healed. He gave her CPR, hoping it wasn't too late. He didn't even care about the blood. Sakura slightly moved and choked.

"Uhnnn..." She groaned.

"Sakura? Sakura?" Li repeated over and over.

"Li...?" She managed to say.

"Yeah its me. Glad to know you're safe." Li smiled and then fell over on his side.

"Li...? Li..!" She yelled. She shot up in a sitting position and looked at the motionless body. She didn't notice until then that he was bloodied all over and had deep gashes in his arms and legs. It looked as if he were fighting against a dinosaur, and unfortunately, the dinosaur won. (A/N yes I know that's sort of a weird analogy, if it is an analogy.... anyways I just felt like explaining it that way!!)

"Oh my gosh! Li!!!!!!" Her shriek echoed through the dark, cold room.

Li did not move. He didn't even flinch. He lay there on the ground; the life was slowly being sucked out of him and seeping through the floor. Sakura was scared to, but she had to see if he was alive. Sakura hesitated and then touched his skin. Colder than ice. She jumped back and gasped. She immediately forced her head to his heart. No steady thrumming. No

bah-bumping. Nothing but the sound of her own breathing. She slowly pulled herself from his chest. She gazed down at his content face. He looked so peaceful.

"Oh Li...." She whispered hugging his lifeless body and shivering. Tears were welling up in her blank eyes. "You shouldn't have saved me, you dummy... You dummy! Li!!!!!!!!!" She cried lifting her head from his face. She looked back down at him. If he wasn't dead before, he was must have been dead now from her strong, bone-crushing grip. Her hands were white and her face was pale. She tried to blink back her tears but one got away from her. It landed on his perfect face. She didn't bother to wipe it away. She didn't even notice. She placed his body back down on the ground and stood up. She wiped her tears away with her right arm and clenched both hands into fists. She turned but couldn't help looking back at the spiritless husk.

"Li... Justice will be served..." She promised to him. "I don't care if she was our friend... I will avenge you with her death!" She declared. She turned back around. "I will save our planet and become the next princess in rule... All for you...no one else..." Her sentence trailed off. She made herself finish. "I will not let your death be for nothing..." Li started to become a bright white light and divided into many that entered Sakura's body, one last time. "Thank you..." She started walking in a random direction. She didn't know where she was going, and frankly, she didn't care. She just had to get away from the memory of what happened and she had to find the bitch that made it happen.

"Miss Daijoubi! Miss Daijoubi are you here?!" Meiaku asked walking into her pink, frilly room. It was way out of character in such a gloomy place.

Tomoyo raised her eyes from the ground to meet with Meiaku's. Tomoyo was wearing a different outfit. Her outfit was now a light blue Chinese dress outlined in gold and the designs were made of silver. Her hair was let down and flowing. She had star explosion, dangling earrings. She had make-up on that perfectly highlighted her best features and a dark red lipstick helped finish the look.

"Why did you bring me here? What have you done with Sakura?!"

"Relax princess." Meiaku waved her hand she appeared in one of her old fighting outfits. It was a Chinese dress with long slits up the sides. Her hair was up in its traditional two buns and the rest flowing. The only difference was that she was wearing red high heels instead of her regular shoes. "You do not need to worry about such vermin." She finished.

"Stop calling me princess! Sakura is my friend! What have you done with her?!"

"But you are the princess now. You know its true. The next person to rule, if anything should happen to Sakura, is you. Princess Tomoyo."

"Stop! Nothing has happened to her! You didn't do it!"

"Oh but I did princess. I killed her. She is lying lifeless on my marble floor. Staining it with her precious, royal blood." Meiaku snickered.

"No.... You couldn't have... Its not possible!"

"Of course it is. Anything is possible."

"NO!!! Li would have protected her! You're making it all up!"

"Am I really princess?" Meiaku snapped her fingers and the man who looked like the older Li appeared through the ceiling. Tomoyo gasped.

"No... That's not him. I knew you were lying!"

"On the contrary. I am Li's evil twin brother. I have more magic than he does. I always wanted to seek revenge on him for being the good little boy. He couldn't have saved Sakura. I trapped him inside her."

"No..."

"Once she died, he died with her. And now I will become the new Li."

"No!"

"Of course there is one big difference. I will love Meiaku instead of that worthless excuse for a girl, Sakura." Meiaku and the new Li kissed.

"Shut up!!!!!!!" Tomoyo screamed. The room was silent. Tomoyo was on the ground covering her head, shaking it slowly and unconsciously, her body was shaking too.

Meiaku tried to walk over to her but a great burst of energy flew her back. "Princess Tomoyo!" She yelled. "Calm down! You don't know how to control your powers yet!"

Tomoyo did not listen. Everything in the room started blowing around her, caught in the whirlwind. Tomoyo just happened to be in the eye of the whirlwind.

"What are we going to do?!" Meiaku screamed to Li.

"I don't know!" He yelled back. "I think that we should just let her continue like this."

"WHAT?!?!?!?!" Meiaku yelled confused.

"Perhaps she is changing for the better." He replied.

"You mean..?"

"Yes." Li nodded his head. "She's becoming the legendary princess."

TO BE CONTINUED