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Disclaimer: I DO NOT own CCS or any of their characters, they just happened to be perfect for the plot of my story. I hope that I do not offend anyone by making this fic, if any objections should arise PLEASE DON'T SUE ME, I am not worth anything right now so you will be the one to lose out :P
Some things in this chap might not make sense so I will explain, when there is (...) present in front of a para, it means that I am switching from one scene to another. If anything else confuses you, please mail me and I will clarify it for you. -
Chapter 1: The leaders
Magic... an oddity which gives incredible power to those who possess and those who don't possess it crave it with a longing which causes them to destroy all in their path to gain it.
The Meikien world possesses this incredible oddity, this magic, which is craved by those worlds who have heard about it only in legends, those worlds that depend on their technology to progress out of savagery into something perhaps less savage.
The people that the Meikien refer to as the Cretins were incredibly advanced in their technology, this advanced state however had only tempered their savagery to a small extent . The secret to the Meikien magic was the Shahnaz stones. These stones, mined from treacherous mountains gave the Meikien people their magic. The more stones a clan held, the more powerful it was. The more stones held by a clan also increased the greed of those who led those clans. And many battles were fought to obtain the stones of clans which were thought to be weaker.
The power of the Shahnaz stones, however was not the sole source of magic in the Meikien world. Some individuals innately possessed magic of their own. These individuals were the leaders of the nine clans of Meikei. Their heritage could be traced back to the great sorcerer Clow Reed. It was rumored that there was yet another sorcerer whose power was perhaps equal to that of Clow Reed, but this sorcerer's identity and the identity of possible descendants was unknown.
The nine clans of the Meikien world were; the Li clan, the clan of Bresher, Rhedin, Xanthania, Qeher, Ghosha, Han, Funghe and the clan of Sitar.
The direct descendants of Clow Reed are the Li clan; this clan is the most powerful of all the nine clans. It led by a fierce young warrior, feared and respected by all. His campaigns were legendary, his power was undisputed. Li Syaoran.
The Cretins had discovered the Shahnaz stones quite by accident, one of their ships had made a crash landing on a mining site, the workers of the mine, not realizing the gravity of the situation had healed these strangers. Once healed, the Cretins returned to their own world and revealed their experiences to their leaders and aroused a greed in their people which was so evil that it seeks to destroy an entire race to dissipate.
The attacks on the Meikien people started soon after this instance, alien attacks which the Meikien people could ill defend against. The only hope left for this magical race involved a unified force which would combine to defeat this overwhelming threat. And who else, but the leader of the undisputed Li clan could lead this force? Many obstacles lay in front of this stalwart leader's goals, the most pressing was the matter of uniting those clans which are still, stupidly, trying to gather as many Shahnaz stones for their own empowering, hoping that if they are powerful enough, they can withstand the Cretins attacks on their people. On this misguided notion, these clans relentlessly attacked their neighbors with powerful spells.
Li Syaoran had to unite the clans of his people, while fending the attacks of the Cretins. He sent missives to all the nine clans and demanded that the most capable warriors join his army, five clans obeyed (Xanthania, Qeher, Rhedin, Sitar and Ghosha) while three rebelled (Han, Funghe, and Bresher), due to their pride. They thought that if they gathered enough stones, they would be able to defeat the Cretins without the help from the allied clans. In this hope they attacked their neighboring clans with great power, disregarding the fact that such power would wipe the attacked clan off the face of the planet.
Enraged by such stupidity, Li sent orders, commands and when all else failed, he sent threats. Yet these rebel clans refused to cease in their attempts to gain Shahnaz stones. In their desperation to gain the stones, they attacked the Shahnaz rich province of Xanthania. A province built on what was the biggest mine of Shahnaz stones in the Meikien world.
Although the Xanthania province was powerful, it was well known that this province's leader Kinomoto Fujitaka, had, with his elder son Kinomoto Touya, had hastened to join Li's army, leaving their own people practically defenseless. And they could even now be dead on one of the planets many moons on which the battle between the Meikeins and the Cretins was taking place.
The only defense left to Xanthania's people rested on the slim shoulders of their young mistress, Kinomoto Sakura...
....the shield will not be able to hold on much longer...they are coming....where is our mistress? Echoes of her people's whispers were loud enough to reach Kinomoto Sakura if she was not lost in her own anxieties. Touya had sent her a missive, he was very far and Sakura knew it would take up a lot of his power to send her that little message. In anticipation as well as a sense of foreboding she recited the spell that would reveal her brother's writing.
Dear baby sis
Hope that you are holding up well over there. This stupid war.... I am sorry that father and I cannot be there with you... and perhaps... Sakura there is a possibility that we might not be able to meet again.
I am sorry to break this news to you sis but father has sustained deep trauma, he is being looked after now...but I am not sure he will make it. I realize now that you were right to try and prevent us from leaving home, we are all but surrounded on all sides, only one slim hope remains for us to get out of here alive... hang on to that hope Sakura... I will do my best to come back to you.
Meanwhile I need you to look after our people Sakura, I know that this news is devastating but, I need you to be strong for them. Remember what father taught us we are the leaders of these people, they rely on us to keep them safe, it is a privilege that has a great responsibility attached to it. In all instances we need to put their needs in front of our own. I know you thought that there would never be a day when you would have to take over this responsibility Sakura, but circumstances have forced it to be so.
Sakura there is also a chance that the Cretans will try to ransom me for our Shahnaz stones, I need you to promise me that you will never, and I mean NEVER agree to such a trade, those stones are the only hope left for our people's survival, NEVER give them up!
I hope that one day we will meet again Sakura, be strong and look after our people, I trust in you and so does father.
Good luck baby sis
Good bye
Your brother
Touya Kinomoto...
...An anguished cry rose high above the towers of Xanthania's citadel, frightening the birds that were already fidgety because of the attack, they flew off in a synchronized flutter of wings, adding to the deafening noise. And as suddenly it had rose, it was abruptly silenced.
A powerful force hummed through the long winding corridors and a pink aura gushed out simultaneously from the door and windows alike, shattering the once beautiful painted glass, it merged with the transparent silver shield that was currently under heavy bombardment by large fire boulders to form brilliantly effervescent, multihued globe.
The dwellers of the great citadel of Xanthania and the villagers swung their anxious eyes towards the High Tower, and beheld the most beautiful yet terrifying sight...their mistress was floating high above the highest tower, glowing a golden/pink color, the wind around her was turbulent, causing her beautiful auburn hair to whip around her head in an almost violent manner.
Her breathtaking emerald eyes were almost completely white. They watched in amazement as she slowly lifted her hands towards the sky and in the blink of an eye the shield disappeared, the eyes of the commoners widened in terror as the heavy metal fire balls came their way with terrifying speed...the hair at each villager's neck rose in anticipation of a crushing death...
Sakura's white, glowing eyes flickered and she lifted her slim arms once more with such force that only the most trained eye would detect their movement... all the populace crouched low, wanting to delay the inevitable for a few more moments, they closed their eyes, mothers shielding their children with their bodies, they waited for excruciating pain, a burning so intense that only cinders would remain of their flesh...
The rain of fire never made an impact, instead was hurled back to it's trajectory with a tremendous force which made the very air hum with tension.
...Silence greeted those still waiting in terror in the citadel's shadow; an eerie silence which they thought would surely precede a certain, painful death.
The silence was a heavy shroud around them and most couldn't bear the uncertain deafness of it for much longer.
A brave pair of eyes lifted heavenwards and flinched in anticipation of a hellish site...
Instead, the eyes encountered a clear blue, innocent sky which could pose no obvious threat to them!
A triumphant shout was joined by others in the great courtyard as the masses celebrated safety again, few watched as their mistress floated back to her tower and landed on the balcony in a graceful heap. "They will be back" she whispered through cracked, pained lips....
...Meanwhile, a long distance from Xanthania. In a grim silence an army of spectacular numbers watched helplessly as a great shower of glowing red boulders made their way with terrifying speed towards the Citadel of Xanthania. All convinced that in a matter of moments all that would be left of that once magnificent edifice would be ashes.
"Those imbeciles!" roared a young man as he too watched the horrible specter, his tone and obvious violent posture made those around him back away uneasily.
The air around him swirled and then stretched, crackling with incompetent fury. His aura, usually a translucent green haze around him, had become darker, an almost black color, reflecting his inner turmoil.
His furious amber eyes promised a dire retribution for those who had disobeyed his direct order and have possibly destroyed their only hope of winning this impossible war with the Cretins. In their greed to get Xanthania's Shahnaz stones, they attacked it with such a force that perhaps the stones themselves would not survive that great impact!
Garbed in an armor entirely forged of the blackest metal and wielding a giant scimitar which glistened in the dry desert air, Li Syaoran was definitely a sight which would strike fear in the hearts of mortals.
Now with the air around him crackling with energy and his amber eyes glistening with fury, few could even dare to raise their eyes to see him.
He had failed...was too late to save the province of his most loyal followers...it was his fault...if only he had not asked them to leave their people defenseless on his assurance that he will be able to protect them. He let out a furious howl which rang out in the still desert air, making the air around him more turbulent and fierce.
In his own furious thoughts he had failed to notice that the boulders never made an impact; were in fact flying back with tremendous speed, back to where they came from.
"um Syaoran?" whispered his most trusted friend and adviser Hiragizawa Eriol, whose eyes had never left the scene on the horizon of Xanthania's Citadel.
"yes?" he curtly replied
"perhaps you should look again at Xanthania, before you decide to murder the Bresher leader"
Amber eyes swung back towards Xanthania and hope burst in his chest as Syaoran beheld the sight of boulders flying away from Xanthania. Disbelief soon mixed with hope and he wondered if it was trick, Kinomoto Fujitaka could alone defend against such an attack, and with great difficulty, how could this miracle have happened?
Deciding to waste no more time, Syaoran ordered his army to advance to Xanthania; he realized that even though by some miracle the citadel of Xanthania was still standing, Bresher was only one clan which was intent on Xanthania's Shahnaz stones. The attacks from Han and Funghe would soon follow.
A great cloud of sand rose as the Li's army, traveling on swift animals, ghodas (tall, four legged creatures with incredible strength and speed), and magical contraptions known as gadis (gliders made of metals fueled by Shahnaz stones, capable of flying at great speeds on the planet as well as in space)...
...oblivious to the great army approaching them, the people of Xanthania rejoiced in their superficial safety. Few had noticed that their mistress was not rejoicing with them and had in fact been weekend so much by her attempt to defend them that she now lay in a heap on the highest tower's balcony.
Those who did notice her falling raced the winding staircases to reach her, to determine that she still lived. Fear for their mistress gave them speed which they thought they were incapable of.
"Sakura!!!", Tomoyo, Sakura's best friend and lady in waiting cried as she rushed towards her crumpled figure. She held a mirror in front of Sakura's face and sighed with relief when moisture on it indicated that her beloved friend was still breathing.
"What are you looking at?" she shouted furiously at those who had gathered on the balcony and were staring openmouthed at their mistress "Come here! Carry her to her chambers!" she ordered. "You!" she pointed at a maid "go heat some water and bring me my herbs"
Tomoyo sat in vigil at Sakura's bedside all that night, desperately mixing and grinding herbs, making all the potions that she had been taught by her mother and futilely trying to make her unconscious friend drink them. Sakura was hardly breathing and that terrified Tomoyo.
"Sakura", she whispered in a strangled whisper while a tear threatened to escape her expressive gray eyes. "Please wake up". She turned away from Sakura's pale face as if she couldn't bear to look at her friend in this state any longer. Her eyes focused on a parchment, which lay crumbled on Sakura's table. She rose and picked it up, her eyes widening with every sentence she read.
"No!" she cried, horrified "this cant be!"
Tomoyo's eyes swung back to Sakura in abject pity and desperation, she was their only hope. "She has to wake up! You hear me Sakura?, wake up!".
Sakura's profile gave no indication that she heard Tomoyo's cries "Damn you Sakura! Will you give up so easily? Will you let our people down? Will you let me down? Will you let your father and brother down? Wake up!" Her hands like steel clamps on Sakura's shoulders, Tomoyo shook her friend with a violent desperation "Wake up!"
With a startled gasp, Sakura's green orbs opened and widened "Tomoyo?" she whispered. Why was her friend shaking her so?
As soon as she heard her, Tomoyo abruptly let go of Sakura and started crying, great heaving sobs which shook her entire body, "what should we do now?" she asked the bewildered girl lying on the bed.
Confused for a moment Sakura wondered what was wrong with Tomoyo "H..Has something happened Tomoyo?" she whispered and then in a flash, she remembered all that had happened before she fainted "oh no! Father! Touya!...Tomoyo they are gone! T...T...Touya said that they were in...in trouble and th...they might not b...be able to come b...b...back".
"Sakura!" Tomoyo commanded ceasing her own sobs, "Stop that!" "We don't know for sure that Kinomoto san and your brother are d...dead". "Remember that they have left you in charge of our people, you must be strong! I know that you will be able to take this on, I have faith in you!"
The fire burning in her friend's eyes riveted Sakura, "She really believes in me!" she thought to herself and a fierce tide of strength flowed back in her body at her friend's faith in her. "I can do this, I will hold on to hope that my family is safe and I will defend my people with all that I am" she vowed in a voice which Tomoyo had never heard her friend use, centuries of leader's blood and strength bespoke that voice. And hope rose in her chest at the magnificent site of Sakura, emerald eyes flashing and her pink aura enveloping her, testifying to her vow and revealing the incredible strength and perseverance which flowed through her veins.
"Everything will be alright" she whispered to herself...
Did you like it? Please review, this is my first fic and I need to know if I am on the right tract. As soon as your reviews come in, I shall start on my next chapter...until then my fingers are crossed :P
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own CCS or any of their characters, they just happened to be perfect for the plot of my story. I hope that I do not offend anyone by making this fic, if any objections should arise PLEASE DON'T SUE ME, I am not worth anything right now so you will be the one to lose out :P
Some things in this chap might not make sense so I will explain, when there is (...) present in front of a para, it means that I am switching from one scene to another. If anything else confuses you, please mail me and I will clarify it for you. -
Chapter 1: The leaders
Magic... an oddity which gives incredible power to those who possess and those who don't possess it crave it with a longing which causes them to destroy all in their path to gain it.
The Meikien world possesses this incredible oddity, this magic, which is craved by those worlds who have heard about it only in legends, those worlds that depend on their technology to progress out of savagery into something perhaps less savage.
The people that the Meikien refer to as the Cretins were incredibly advanced in their technology, this advanced state however had only tempered their savagery to a small extent . The secret to the Meikien magic was the Shahnaz stones. These stones, mined from treacherous mountains gave the Meikien people their magic. The more stones a clan held, the more powerful it was. The more stones held by a clan also increased the greed of those who led those clans. And many battles were fought to obtain the stones of clans which were thought to be weaker.
The power of the Shahnaz stones, however was not the sole source of magic in the Meikien world. Some individuals innately possessed magic of their own. These individuals were the leaders of the nine clans of Meikei. Their heritage could be traced back to the great sorcerer Clow Reed. It was rumored that there was yet another sorcerer whose power was perhaps equal to that of Clow Reed, but this sorcerer's identity and the identity of possible descendants was unknown.
The nine clans of the Meikien world were; the Li clan, the clan of Bresher, Rhedin, Xanthania, Qeher, Ghosha, Han, Funghe and the clan of Sitar.
The direct descendants of Clow Reed are the Li clan; this clan is the most powerful of all the nine clans. It led by a fierce young warrior, feared and respected by all. His campaigns were legendary, his power was undisputed. Li Syaoran.
The Cretins had discovered the Shahnaz stones quite by accident, one of their ships had made a crash landing on a mining site, the workers of the mine, not realizing the gravity of the situation had healed these strangers. Once healed, the Cretins returned to their own world and revealed their experiences to their leaders and aroused a greed in their people which was so evil that it seeks to destroy an entire race to dissipate.
The attacks on the Meikien people started soon after this instance, alien attacks which the Meikien people could ill defend against. The only hope left for this magical race involved a unified force which would combine to defeat this overwhelming threat. And who else, but the leader of the undisputed Li clan could lead this force? Many obstacles lay in front of this stalwart leader's goals, the most pressing was the matter of uniting those clans which are still, stupidly, trying to gather as many Shahnaz stones for their own empowering, hoping that if they are powerful enough, they can withstand the Cretins attacks on their people. On this misguided notion, these clans relentlessly attacked their neighbors with powerful spells.
Li Syaoran had to unite the clans of his people, while fending the attacks of the Cretins. He sent missives to all the nine clans and demanded that the most capable warriors join his army, five clans obeyed (Xanthania, Qeher, Rhedin, Sitar and Ghosha) while three rebelled (Han, Funghe, and Bresher), due to their pride. They thought that if they gathered enough stones, they would be able to defeat the Cretins without the help from the allied clans. In this hope they attacked their neighboring clans with great power, disregarding the fact that such power would wipe the attacked clan off the face of the planet.
Enraged by such stupidity, Li sent orders, commands and when all else failed, he sent threats. Yet these rebel clans refused to cease in their attempts to gain Shahnaz stones. In their desperation to gain the stones, they attacked the Shahnaz rich province of Xanthania. A province built on what was the biggest mine of Shahnaz stones in the Meikien world.
Although the Xanthania province was powerful, it was well known that this province's leader Kinomoto Fujitaka, had, with his elder son Kinomoto Touya, had hastened to join Li's army, leaving their own people practically defenseless. And they could even now be dead on one of the planets many moons on which the battle between the Meikeins and the Cretins was taking place.
The only defense left to Xanthania's people rested on the slim shoulders of their young mistress, Kinomoto Sakura...
....the shield will not be able to hold on much longer...they are coming....where is our mistress? Echoes of her people's whispers were loud enough to reach Kinomoto Sakura if she was not lost in her own anxieties. Touya had sent her a missive, he was very far and Sakura knew it would take up a lot of his power to send her that little message. In anticipation as well as a sense of foreboding she recited the spell that would reveal her brother's writing.
Dear baby sis
Hope that you are holding up well over there. This stupid war.... I am sorry that father and I cannot be there with you... and perhaps... Sakura there is a possibility that we might not be able to meet again.
I am sorry to break this news to you sis but father has sustained deep trauma, he is being looked after now...but I am not sure he will make it. I realize now that you were right to try and prevent us from leaving home, we are all but surrounded on all sides, only one slim hope remains for us to get out of here alive... hang on to that hope Sakura... I will do my best to come back to you.
Meanwhile I need you to look after our people Sakura, I know that this news is devastating but, I need you to be strong for them. Remember what father taught us we are the leaders of these people, they rely on us to keep them safe, it is a privilege that has a great responsibility attached to it. In all instances we need to put their needs in front of our own. I know you thought that there would never be a day when you would have to take over this responsibility Sakura, but circumstances have forced it to be so.
Sakura there is also a chance that the Cretans will try to ransom me for our Shahnaz stones, I need you to promise me that you will never, and I mean NEVER agree to such a trade, those stones are the only hope left for our people's survival, NEVER give them up!
I hope that one day we will meet again Sakura, be strong and look after our people, I trust in you and so does father.
Good luck baby sis
Good bye
Your brother
Touya Kinomoto...
...An anguished cry rose high above the towers of Xanthania's citadel, frightening the birds that were already fidgety because of the attack, they flew off in a synchronized flutter of wings, adding to the deafening noise. And as suddenly it had rose, it was abruptly silenced.
A powerful force hummed through the long winding corridors and a pink aura gushed out simultaneously from the door and windows alike, shattering the once beautiful painted glass, it merged with the transparent silver shield that was currently under heavy bombardment by large fire boulders to form brilliantly effervescent, multihued globe.
The dwellers of the great citadel of Xanthania and the villagers swung their anxious eyes towards the High Tower, and beheld the most beautiful yet terrifying sight...their mistress was floating high above the highest tower, glowing a golden/pink color, the wind around her was turbulent, causing her beautiful auburn hair to whip around her head in an almost violent manner.
Her breathtaking emerald eyes were almost completely white. They watched in amazement as she slowly lifted her hands towards the sky and in the blink of an eye the shield disappeared, the eyes of the commoners widened in terror as the heavy metal fire balls came their way with terrifying speed...the hair at each villager's neck rose in anticipation of a crushing death...
Sakura's white, glowing eyes flickered and she lifted her slim arms once more with such force that only the most trained eye would detect their movement... all the populace crouched low, wanting to delay the inevitable for a few more moments, they closed their eyes, mothers shielding their children with their bodies, they waited for excruciating pain, a burning so intense that only cinders would remain of their flesh...
The rain of fire never made an impact, instead was hurled back to it's trajectory with a tremendous force which made the very air hum with tension.
...Silence greeted those still waiting in terror in the citadel's shadow; an eerie silence which they thought would surely precede a certain, painful death.
The silence was a heavy shroud around them and most couldn't bear the uncertain deafness of it for much longer.
A brave pair of eyes lifted heavenwards and flinched in anticipation of a hellish site...
Instead, the eyes encountered a clear blue, innocent sky which could pose no obvious threat to them!
A triumphant shout was joined by others in the great courtyard as the masses celebrated safety again, few watched as their mistress floated back to her tower and landed on the balcony in a graceful heap. "They will be back" she whispered through cracked, pained lips....
...Meanwhile, a long distance from Xanthania. In a grim silence an army of spectacular numbers watched helplessly as a great shower of glowing red boulders made their way with terrifying speed towards the Citadel of Xanthania. All convinced that in a matter of moments all that would be left of that once magnificent edifice would be ashes.
"Those imbeciles!" roared a young man as he too watched the horrible specter, his tone and obvious violent posture made those around him back away uneasily.
The air around him swirled and then stretched, crackling with incompetent fury. His aura, usually a translucent green haze around him, had become darker, an almost black color, reflecting his inner turmoil.
His furious amber eyes promised a dire retribution for those who had disobeyed his direct order and have possibly destroyed their only hope of winning this impossible war with the Cretins. In their greed to get Xanthania's Shahnaz stones, they attacked it with such a force that perhaps the stones themselves would not survive that great impact!
Garbed in an armor entirely forged of the blackest metal and wielding a giant scimitar which glistened in the dry desert air, Li Syaoran was definitely a sight which would strike fear in the hearts of mortals.
Now with the air around him crackling with energy and his amber eyes glistening with fury, few could even dare to raise their eyes to see him.
He had failed...was too late to save the province of his most loyal followers...it was his fault...if only he had not asked them to leave their people defenseless on his assurance that he will be able to protect them. He let out a furious howl which rang out in the still desert air, making the air around him more turbulent and fierce.
In his own furious thoughts he had failed to notice that the boulders never made an impact; were in fact flying back with tremendous speed, back to where they came from.
"um Syaoran?" whispered his most trusted friend and adviser Hiragizawa Eriol, whose eyes had never left the scene on the horizon of Xanthania's Citadel.
"yes?" he curtly replied
"perhaps you should look again at Xanthania, before you decide to murder the Bresher leader"
Amber eyes swung back towards Xanthania and hope burst in his chest as Syaoran beheld the sight of boulders flying away from Xanthania. Disbelief soon mixed with hope and he wondered if it was trick, Kinomoto Fujitaka could alone defend against such an attack, and with great difficulty, how could this miracle have happened?
Deciding to waste no more time, Syaoran ordered his army to advance to Xanthania; he realized that even though by some miracle the citadel of Xanthania was still standing, Bresher was only one clan which was intent on Xanthania's Shahnaz stones. The attacks from Han and Funghe would soon follow.
A great cloud of sand rose as the Li's army, traveling on swift animals, ghodas (tall, four legged creatures with incredible strength and speed), and magical contraptions known as gadis (gliders made of metals fueled by Shahnaz stones, capable of flying at great speeds on the planet as well as in space)...
...oblivious to the great army approaching them, the people of Xanthania rejoiced in their superficial safety. Few had noticed that their mistress was not rejoicing with them and had in fact been weekend so much by her attempt to defend them that she now lay in a heap on the highest tower's balcony.
Those who did notice her falling raced the winding staircases to reach her, to determine that she still lived. Fear for their mistress gave them speed which they thought they were incapable of.
"Sakura!!!", Tomoyo, Sakura's best friend and lady in waiting cried as she rushed towards her crumpled figure. She held a mirror in front of Sakura's face and sighed with relief when moisture on it indicated that her beloved friend was still breathing.
"What are you looking at?" she shouted furiously at those who had gathered on the balcony and were staring openmouthed at their mistress "Come here! Carry her to her chambers!" she ordered. "You!" she pointed at a maid "go heat some water and bring me my herbs"
Tomoyo sat in vigil at Sakura's bedside all that night, desperately mixing and grinding herbs, making all the potions that she had been taught by her mother and futilely trying to make her unconscious friend drink them. Sakura was hardly breathing and that terrified Tomoyo.
"Sakura", she whispered in a strangled whisper while a tear threatened to escape her expressive gray eyes. "Please wake up". She turned away from Sakura's pale face as if she couldn't bear to look at her friend in this state any longer. Her eyes focused on a parchment, which lay crumbled on Sakura's table. She rose and picked it up, her eyes widening with every sentence she read.
"No!" she cried, horrified "this cant be!"
Tomoyo's eyes swung back to Sakura in abject pity and desperation, she was their only hope. "She has to wake up! You hear me Sakura?, wake up!".
Sakura's profile gave no indication that she heard Tomoyo's cries "Damn you Sakura! Will you give up so easily? Will you let our people down? Will you let me down? Will you let your father and brother down? Wake up!" Her hands like steel clamps on Sakura's shoulders, Tomoyo shook her friend with a violent desperation "Wake up!"
With a startled gasp, Sakura's green orbs opened and widened "Tomoyo?" she whispered. Why was her friend shaking her so?
As soon as she heard her, Tomoyo abruptly let go of Sakura and started crying, great heaving sobs which shook her entire body, "what should we do now?" she asked the bewildered girl lying on the bed.
Confused for a moment Sakura wondered what was wrong with Tomoyo "H..Has something happened Tomoyo?" she whispered and then in a flash, she remembered all that had happened before she fainted "oh no! Father! Touya!...Tomoyo they are gone! T...T...Touya said that they were in...in trouble and th...they might not b...be able to come b...b...back".
"Sakura!" Tomoyo commanded ceasing her own sobs, "Stop that!" "We don't know for sure that Kinomoto san and your brother are d...dead". "Remember that they have left you in charge of our people, you must be strong! I know that you will be able to take this on, I have faith in you!"
The fire burning in her friend's eyes riveted Sakura, "She really believes in me!" she thought to herself and a fierce tide of strength flowed back in her body at her friend's faith in her. "I can do this, I will hold on to hope that my family is safe and I will defend my people with all that I am" she vowed in a voice which Tomoyo had never heard her friend use, centuries of leader's blood and strength bespoke that voice. And hope rose in her chest at the magnificent site of Sakura, emerald eyes flashing and her pink aura enveloping her, testifying to her vow and revealing the incredible strength and perseverance which flowed through her veins.
"Everything will be alright" she whispered to herself...
Did you like it? Please review, this is my first fic and I need to know if I am on the right tract. As soon as your reviews come in, I shall start on my next chapter...until then my fingers are crossed :P