Chapter 19

"Sakura watch out!" Li yelled. The evil Li charged at her. Sakura jumped in the air right at the moment of his strike. She landed on her feet in a fighting position next to her staff. Not taking her eyes off her opponent, she picked up her staff. She changed it back into a sword. Li charged at her again.

Sakura blocked the attack. "Why are you doing this? What is your purpose?!" She yelled forcing him back and slicing his cheek. Blood flowed down his cheek. He wickedly grinned. His cut healed seconds later. Sakura's eyes widened.

"My purpose? My purpose...will be made clear soon!" Li attacked Sakura when she wasn't ready. She gained a cut in her arm she held the staff with. She cringed in pain but didn't lose eye contact with her attacker. She held her arm.

"Soon? How soon?!"

"Soon after you die!" Li attacked her again. She dodged and hid behind a piece of furniture. She changed the sword to her other hand and waited to be found. It didn't take that long. "Come on, do you really believe you can hide behind that thing?" Li slashed the furniture in half to find Sakura not there. Sakura jumped out of her hiding spot and slashed him in the back.

"Did you think I would be so easy to get rid of?" She said confidently until Li turned his head with a smile. "Huh?" Sakura didn't let her guard down but somehow she was floating in the air now, suffocating.

Li spoke. "We will only heal back, and when we do, we come back with vengeance." He laughed evilly. Sakura tried to turn her head. Behind her holding her by her neck was hair. Dark hair that connected with Tomoyo's head.

"To-mo-yo-" Sakura managed to say.

"For the last time, don't call me that!!" Toaku screamed.

"Don't do this....." Sakura pleaded.

"Why shouldn't I? You left me in a world of cold, emptiness. Despair and loneliness became my best friends. But I don't want to live in that world anymore. That world is not a place for me!"

"Of course not....you should be....in our world....with us all."

Toaku's eyes grew a new kind of fierce. Her heart was a war zone. The anger of her so called friends abandoning her and the love that she would always have for her friends were battling equally. What should she do?

"Come with us, we'll go back to our world, back to when everything was enjoyable."

Something snapped inside Toaku. Her anger in her heart was suddenly winning.

"Go back to those days? Those days when we had nothing to worry about?"

"Mm hm..." Sakura responded.

"You mean those days when I was a pathetic, little girl who had her feelings stepped on every few seconds?! A girl who was over protected by guards but her heart was still ripped to shreds?! You want me to go back to that?! Are you really as dumb as I thought you were?!"

"Everything will be different! You'll see!"

"Yes, everything will be different, as soon as you-" Toaku stopped in the middle of her sentence. She moaned while her vicious hairgrip on Sakura suddenly loosened. Toaku fell to her knees and held her throat. Blood was overflowing her mouth in seconds, falling and covering her precious, pale hands.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura broke free and ran up to Toaku. Toaku threw her back with a powerful blast of wind. Sakura pummeled into the rigged, stonewall. She fell from a 10-foot distance to the ground, face first. Sakura looked up with one eye closed. "Oh Tomoyo!" Toaku choked and she started holding her stomach.

"Li! Help!!!" She cried.

"Ah, so it's finally happening." Li walked over to Toaku and kneeled down.

"What's finally happening?" She asked looking up in his eyes, clearly in pain.

"Ah, my dear beloved," Li brought her face to his and smiled. "This is simply another reason I love you so much. You are experiencing a transformation that will share your power with someone else."

"What?!"

"When you reach your fullest hatred, your power splits so that you won't destroy this world and the next. You just have too much power when you reach your full capacity of hatred and so your power is shared with another person that is close to you, that person would be me." Toaku looked as if a boulder hit her.

"You've got to be kidding right?" Toaku said in denial. "You love me, right? Right?!" She asked afraid of the answer.

"I do," He answered. Relief replaced fear on Toaku's face. "But not for the reasons you're thinking." He kissed Toaku and then thrust his hand in Toaku's chest. It seemed to go through a portal of some kind. Toaku was speechless. Li searched around and then pulled something out. It looked like half a candy heart. He backed away from Toaku. Toaku fell to the ground.

"And now, I shall do what I came to do in the first place. With your power and my wits, this world will be mine!" Li threw the candied heart in the air, and then catching it over and over. Toaku looked up.

"Don't you mean ours? What about our plan?!"

"What plan? Oh, you mean our plan to rule the earth and its people together?" Toaku stayed silent as if saying 'yeah that plan'. "There's been a slight change in our plan. Our plan has become my plan and you're out of the picture. Oh, but you will still be my queen. Its just more expected that a king rule instead of a queen. No offense." (A/N I take that very offensive. do u agree with me girls?!)

"Li..." She said before falling into a deep trance.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura was on her feet in seconds. She ran over to Toaku. She was unconscious but she was okay. "Thank goodness." Li just stared in disgust and popped the candied heart in his mouth.

"She can not hear you, you know. She is probably slowly dying as we speak."

"What?"

"She refuses to change back into her other form and so all the power she has now will be used to maintain that form. If she tries to use any power to come out of that trance, she will surely die soon." Sakura's mouth dropped. Less than a split second later, he was at her side holding her chin up making her look in his eyes. "But I will have a new queen. You seem to fit the position better." Li tried to kiss her but she kicked him away. "And you're feisty, you will make a great queen."

"Why are you doing this? Why do you want revenge?"

"Why you ask? Well if you look over at that loser stuck under the rubble," Evil Li's thumb pointed over to the other Li still stuck under the furniture. He was slowly working his way out of the situation. "You'll see that we look a lot alike, don't we?"

"Yes, but what does that have anything to do with it?" Sakura was now holding Toaku in her arms. Toaku's head rested on Sakura's lap.

"Can't you see it? Are you really that dense? He's my twin brother."

Sakura's mouth dropped again. Confused her eyes went from Liaku to Li and back again several times. "What?! Is that possible?!"

"It sure is. And in many cultures, they believed that having twins meant one of them was evil and the other good. So they got rid of one. Unfortunately, our family believed in that and they discarded me." The evil Li closed his eyes thinking back.

Sakura waited for him to continue but when he didn't she asked another question.

"But why are you taking it out on the world?"

"Because the world was the one that wanted to get rid of me!" He spat at her as if it were obvious. "My parents were going to kill me but my powers as an infant were still strong and so I teleported myself somewhere safe, away from them." His face was twisted in pain. "Everyday, I wondered why it had to be me, why not him. And each day, the earth would whisper to me, 'go back and die' or 'kill yourself and the pain will all go away'. It was as if the earth wished I had died."

"That can't be true, nature is so kind and peaceful."

"Heh, maybe I was just imagining things then, but I can't forget how I was rejected everywhere I went. Wolves raised me, they took me in out of pity. I could see that it was a great burden on them for keeping me so when I got a little older, I left the pack and lived on my own. I was a boy walking on the soil that clearly did not want me there."

"I'm so sorry."

"Its not your fault, its my parents. Every once in a while I would go back to my home and stare in the windows seeing what their life was like. One time, they looked so happy that I couldn't take it. They were happily singing Christmas songs as if I never existed. I wanted to bring pain into their lives so..." Li trailed off. Now the Li across the room was finally back up on his feet and listening to the story. Sakura urged him to continue.

"So...?"

"I killed my father." He said bluntly.

Li's eyes widened in fear as he remembered when his father died.

"You killed-" Sakura couldn't finish the sentence.

"Yes, I killed him slowly, making him feel every ounce of pain I felt. I killed him with my powers. He died, lying in cold blood. It felt good to get that off my chest. I would have killed my mother too but a maid found the body before I had a chance to get around to mother. I promised that I would come back and kill my mother."

"What about Li?"

"He does not remember it but I came to his window one night, I told him of my plan to live alone, I wanted him to come with me. He simply looked at me in horror. I thought that my mother and father were the ones that made the mistake in trying to kill one of their own children, but it was obvious that Li had taken their side in all of this. So I erased his memory and vowed to kill him too. He became the enemy that night."

"Can't you give him a second chance?!" Sakura begged.

"No Sakura." Both Sakura and Liaku looked over at the now standing Li. "I will not forgive you. You killed our father!" He exclaimed.

"Yes little brother, and I'd gladly do it again!"

"You bastard!!!" Li charged at his brother with his sword. Sakura watched in horror as the first strike was made.

TO BE CONTINUED