LOVE OF THE MOON
BY XANTHAE
DISCLAIMER - No own CCS or its characters.
AN: Chapter seven is here! Sorry for taking so long. I have been busy with school and work.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter! Read and Review please.
CHAPTER SEVEN - PREMONITIONS
She dreamt that night. A dream unlike any other she had dreamt before. In her sleep her eyes
were with tears. In her sleep, she whimpers like a beaten dog. She dreamt uneasily and afraid...
---Dream---
A dark night. A new moon. Light only from man-made lights and twinkling of faint distant stars.
On a ground of emerald grass and darken haunting trees...
On her knees and hands on the ground, she was crying as if she had lost everything so dear to
her. Tears were endless, streaming down her cheeks. Soaked in by her tattered clothing. She
was alone crying. There was no one to comfort her. No one to answer her cries of her broken
heart.
She continued to cry. Her body was trembling. No one was coming to comfort her. The only
approach was the slow flow of liquid heading her way. By the faint distant light, the liquid was
crimson red. It flowed to her hands. Dirt covered gloves soaked the crimson liquid. She did not
heed. She did not move her hand. Her hands only grip the soft dirt in a tight fist. She did not
have to look to see what it was.
Tracing the flow of blood. A now dull golden orange fur body laid motionless on the ground. Its
eyes closed. It will not open to see who is crying. Body of a lion battered, bruised and scarred.
Fur soaked with red crimson. Wings tattered and broken. Feathers a-skewed and soaked with
the same red crimson liquid. Motionless...
A rustle of wind...
The sob of her cries...
Motionless...
---Break---
Sakura shifted uneasily. Her body soaked with her sweat. Eyes filled with tears. "Kero," she
whispered in a whimper. Her hand clutched her blanket tighter.
---Dream---
Beside the body of the motionless winged lion was another body. A body of human shape.
Clothing tattered. Hair a-skewed and strands all around the body. Body broken and scarred.
Wings once pure white now drenched in liquid crimson and broken. Feathers laid scattered and
skewed, some covered with crimson.
Motionless the body laid. Motionless to her crying of her heart.
---Break---
Her body curled in a fetal position. Her hands went searching and found him beside her. Her
arms wrapped around his arm. Desperate, she clung to him. She snuggle against him. "Yue," she
cried softly as tears flowed like streams down her cheeks.
---Dream---
Broken and motionless. They were dead. They were creation of magic and yet they can bleed,
crimson blood. Their life now gone. Their body shimmer with light that startled her out of her
crying. She slowly raised her head fearing the worst.
Before her eyes, their body glowed with faint light, one faint golden orange and the other silver
blue. Their shimmering body becoming transparent with the lose of their flesh. Then in an
instance, in a swirl of magic, their spirit form was no more. In that instance they were gone, their
existence ceased.
Before her eyes they were gone. Gone forever without leaving anything behind but their crimson
blood on the ground. Her eyes swelled with more tears. Her head was shaking with denial. They
can't be gone. They can't leave her. HE can't leave her! HE can't!
Yet HE was gone in a swirl of magic. Gone forever. Forever gone.
Everything crashed. Her body slump down to the ground. She cried harder. She cried with her
heart and soul. She was broken. Her heart and soul broken with the lose of HIM.
Then a shadow over her. She did not move. "Die!"
There was nothing but a swish before darkness consumed her.
---Break---
Sakura woke up with a sweat and panting hard. Tears were in her eyes flowing down her
cheeks. The dream, she knew was no ordinary dream. It was a premonition to what is going to
happen. She was very afraid. Will she lose him? Just when they are finally together and happy;
will he be taken away from her? She wept.
---
Sakura was not her usual happy self when she came down for breakfast. She had woken up
earlier. Her dream still haunted her and frightened her severely. Panicking, she wanted to wake
up Yue but immediately decided against it. She knew that he was very protective of her. He
would do anything to protect her, even giving up his life. She didn't want to worry him. She
didn't want tense and searching for battles. No, she didn't want to let him go yet.
She decided to leave him to sleep. Instead, she quietly slid out of the bed and went into the
shower. By the time she came out, Yue wasn't sleeping or in the bedroom. She sighed with relief
but somehow felt tense.
Walking out of her room to the dinning room, she found her breakfast ready on the table. Yue
sat at the table with his hand wrapped around his mug of steaming tea. Yue was looking down at
the dark liquid, more like staring at it. Something was wrong.
"Yue?" she slowly walked up to him. His head jerked up with surprise. He quickly turned to her
and that was when she saw it. In his eyes...there was something in those eyes that reminded her
of her dream. He dreamt too. "What did you see?" she asked as she sat beside him.
He closed his eyes for a moment. His hand griped the cup tighter. His breathing was slow.
Sakura felt afraid, very afraid to hear what he saw in his dream. So very scared. She reached
out to him, holding on to his arms as she waited. Her heart racing and her mind flashing back to
the dream. She didn't want to hear it.
"I had a dream..." he began. He could feel her grip her arm tighter. She knew what is to come.
He knew she dreamt as well. Feeling her fears, he knew her dream was not a happy one.
"What did you see in the dream?" her voice hinted fear.
He opened his eyes. Though his cup of tea was right in front of him, he didn't see the dark liquid
but a flash of his dream. "A new moon... A demon with black wings...wings of steel..."
---Flash---
The moon was a new moon. A time when he was at his weakest.
Black wings, feathers of steel. They gleam in the dim light of the night. Body was built like his
own. However, the demon had nails sharp as a sword already covered with blood. Eyes like a
wolf's eyes gleaming sinisterly at him.
He took off into the skies flapping his white wings with great force to escape. He flew into the
dark night racing through the darkened streets that was deserted of all life. Through the woods
and over the streams. Past the bushes and over the houses, he raced. Every step of the way the
demon kept up.
Then through the steel tower, weaving through the steel beams. A mistake. Demon kept up.
Following behind, it suddenly weaved a different path from his own. That path crossed his.
With a force of great, he was slammed against the steel beam. Pain. Talons ripe through his
wings displacing and scattering the white feathers. More pain. Whatever feathers remained were
stained with red.
His arms grabbed onto the demon's arm trying to hold them back. Demon was stronger and
thirsty for blood. His strength was weak. His mistress, as powerful as she was, she needed the
strength to fight her enemy. A new moon, a mistress needing her strength, he had nothing to
bring up his strength to fight back.
The demon suddenly stop his struggle. Wings spread open, feathers gleaming like steel, the
demon pushed itself away releasing the weakened moon guardian. As he began to fall, the
demon flapped its wings. Feathers flew out. His eyes widen. Feathers of steel was sharp as a
knife. Wings riped, a new moon, mistress fighting, gravity... There was nothing but to close eyes.
Then came the piercing pain.
---End Flash---
Sakura was afraid. He could sense her emotions after he had told her his dream. She feared
death. She feared losing him. Yet to him, it was a dream. A dream of the future that has yet to
come. He turned to her, "Sakura..."
"I'm scared. What if it comes true? Am I going to lose you and Kero?" she asked voice so
desperate and terrified.
"No. It is not going to happen. Clow told me that visions do not always come true as it is seen.
See it as a warning," he said as softly and soothing as he could.
She was silent for a moment before she nodded. Yet she clung to him tighter. He rose from his
seat and turned to her. He towered over by a few inches. Cupping her face in his pale hands,
they stared at each other. She stared so intently at his eyes. There was fear in those eyes still.
There was only one thing to get her mind off of the dream.
He leaned down and brushed his lips against hers. Her eyes slowly closed as he press his lips
more firmly to hers. Her body melted against his. Her eyes closed. For her he could sense her
fears fading away as well as his own. They were in their own world.
---
Kero stayed in an apartment next to Sakura. Every since that day after Yue was separated from
his false form, Yukito, Kero could no longer stay in his false form. He had bore witness to the
separate of the moon guardian and his false form. He was there are the 'wedding' as the 'ring
bearer', a stuff animal with the wedding bands on each arm. He sat on the cushion held by a
human ring bearer. He watched the 'wedding' proceed then came Sakura running away. Then
came the bright light in which Yue flew out of his false form. Kero was amazed.
The human ring bearer, a child about five got scared and dropped Kero and the cushion. Kero
took the opportunity to fly away. However, he did not get far. During his flight, he experienced a
strange sensation through out his tiny body. The next thing he knew he was blacked out.
When he woke up, he was in a hospital. His eyes open to see a nurse talking to him. So
shocked he jerked up only to discover himself in a bed as a human! He was human! Surprised,
he jumped off the bed and into the bathroom. In the mirror, he could see himself. Hair was a
golden orange color. Hair was long but not long as Yue as a guardian. It was about waist length;
he had locks of hair at either side of his head that was shorter, to his chin that cupped his face.
His eyes were a golden brown color. He had a handsome face...no...beautiful. Looking down at
his body, he was slender, like Yue.
He couldn't believe what he saw. He closed his eyes trying to revert to his same form but
nothing happened. He could no longer return to his small false form. Not wanting to surprise the
nurse any further, he checked himself out. Once out he went into an alleyway and tried to
transform into his true form. It worked. He realized that his human form was his false form now.
Once that was settled, he went to Sakura. However, seeing that the apartment to Sakura was
empty he decided to take that. He magically made himself a part of residence of the building.
People would know him. No one will question who he is. They know him as a friend of Sakura
who live alone and works somewhere.
Sakura had a shock of her life when she found out. She was happy for him as well as for Yue
who was now free to be with the mistress at all times. He noticed things between Yue and
Sakura. He was happy for them. Yet it made him a bit envious.
Kero sighed as he shook of his daydream. He was sitting at his small dinning table staring out of
the window while holding a cup of tea in his hands. While staring out he had a strange feeling of
something coming. He never had any experience with predicting the future as in with visions. He
never develop that skill like Yue did. However he did have strange feeling of something coming
whenever something major was going to happen. Today when he woke up, he felt it. The
warmth of the sun was different as if the sun was trying to tell him something.
Turning to his tea, he knew that something major was coming. Something within him told him
that Yue's separation and his new false form wasn't just a miracle. It was the working of destiny.
A battle was coming and he knew what he needed to do.
Rising from his chair and leaving his tea. He went and grab his phone. It was time to bring
everyone together to fight this one. The three couldn't fight this battle alone. So Kero set his
slender fingers to dial the numbers. It was going to be a long morning.
AN: Sakura has one scary dream. It is just a dream. None of it happened yet. Like what I did
with Kero? No one is going to left out. Everyone is coming back. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed
it. Chapter 8 is coming soon. R & R please.
NEXT - CHAPTER EIGHT - ASCENDING DARKNESS
SUMMARY - The enemy is here. Who is the enemy? Yue can't fight, why?
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