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Unending BattlesChapter 2: Old Friends and the New Girl
Li looked sharply up from the math book he had been reading. He felt some sort of presence, and a very strange one that that...but it was easy to tell that it very far away. Suddenly, he remembered the letter Sakura had sent him telling him about some strange aura that was so frightening it gave her goose bumps. It must be the same thing I felt a few weeks ago... he thought, Hopefully since I'm on vacation mother will listen to me this time....
FLASH BACK
Li sat up in his bed at Rjiki High Finishing and Boarding School. What is this? It's so strong...so overwhelming...so...so...scary He could not find any other words to describe this aura he felt. Li brought his knees to his chest and shivered. Just the feeling from this could give me nightmares. I hope I never run into the person that this belongs to... He knew he needed to tell his mother about this right away, so he picked up his cell phone and dialed the number to his family's house.
"Oka-san," he said urgently, "I don't know if you feel it too, but there is a very frightening presence."
"I know, Syaoran. I felt it too." She said calmly, "it's in another country, so we have nothing to worry about."
"But what if something's happening in Tomoeda again?! Shouldn't I go back to make sure that everything is ok?"
"No." replied his mother shortly, "it is not our business unless it harms the Mistress of the Clow Cards."
"But mother!" he shouted, "Sakura-chan is the strongest magician of this age, surely whoever this is will go after her!"
"We do not know that they are in Tomoeda, and we do not know if they even want to be the greatest magician. We will wait." Commanded Li's mother.
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END FLASH BACK
She ignored him last time...but maybe she'll listen this time.
"Mother!" Li called, as he ran down to the garden, "I just felt--"
"A presence," his mother finished, "I know. I felt it too."
"I think it may be that thing that's causing trouble in Tomoeda. There's been a few strange things going on there, and Sakura wrote me saying that she was feeling a really scary aura almost every day." Of course, this was a lie. Sakura only felt the presence a few times in the past month, and there were no strange happenings, but his mother didn't need to know that. He would do whatever he had to, to go back to Tomoeda.
"I know," said his mother again, "you've told me...and we have both felt this presence before." She sighed, I don't want to do this she thought, but I have no choice. "Syaoran, I'm going to arrange for you to transfer back to Tomoeda. You'll have to live alone this time, Wei-san is needed here. But I trust that you are old and responsible enough to take care of yourself."
"Hai," said Li, in monotone, but on the inside he was on a high. I get to go back! I can see Sakura and everyone again, and this time things will be different. Wei won't be there to make me come back...and there's been so many problems there that mother may let me stay permanently. It would certainly be easier than going back every time something happened....
As his mother began making arrangements and began the paper work that was required, Li packed everything he would need. Should I tell Sakura that I'm coming back? he wondered, Iie, no, I think I'll surprise her... he glanced at a calendar and smiled, and just in time for her birthday too...
All the way in England, was the re-incarnation of Clow Reed, Hiiragizawa Eriol.
He looked up from the book he was reading, and stared hard at the wall.
"Hmm? Eriol, is there something fascinating about that wall?" asked a tall girl with long red hair, "You've been looking at it a lot lately." She leaned on the top of the tall-backed chair Eriol was sitting in.
"No, Ruby Moon," he said smiling slightly, "I felt a presence. That's all."
"Eh? I didn't feel anything!" Ruby Moon said surprised, looking around and then at her hands, "Are my powers weakening?"
"I don't think so, Ruby. It's really far away...In Japan I think. I almost didn't feel it," her master reassured her.
"Hmm..." said a tiny black cat with blue wings lazily flew over, "Weren't you reading? Usually you're so engrossed in a book that you don't even hear us talking to you."
"Heh, I'm sorry Spinel Sun. I wasn't really concentrating..." said Eriol, sweat dropping a bit, "But I think it's time to go back to Tomoeda."
Just then, a girl with long dark brown hair and emerald green eyes walked in.
"Eriol!" she yelled, "I've tried calling you a million times, what did you do, unplug the phone again!"
"Gomen nasai, Yume-chan. I've been very busy and didn't remember that there's no phone in this room."
Yume just stood there and glared with one hand on her hip. "Yea yea, excuses excuses...you obviously forgot that we were SUPPOSED to work on our book report together at my house too."
Eriol sweat dropped. He had forgotten, but there was more important things to do and worry about.
"Gomen, Yume," he apologized again, "but I admit that I did forget. But what if I told you that we don't have to do the report?"
Yume raised an eyebrow, "I don't see how, but I'll humor you. Go on..."
"Well," said Eriol, wondering how to word this, "I think that something strange is happening again in Tomoeda--"
"What? That place in Japan that you went to last year just to harass some girl!" Yume had a vein popping in her temple, I don't believe this guy.... Why am I friends with him again?
"Er...I suppose you could put it that way. But I've told you the whole story and you know it was for a good cause." Yume just looked at him, "Well, I think something bad is going to happen to that girl so I want to go back to help her--"
"Ah HA!" exclaimed Eriol's life long friend, "You want to go back there, so I can stay here and do the project by myself! I knew it."
"Not quite," replied Eriol, shattering the girl's victorious expression, "I want you to come with me. I felt a very powerful aura a few minutes ago, and I don't know if I alone could be of much help. You have had more fighting experience in this lifetime than I have and you also have much more knowledge about all the modern magicians than I do." He looked away from Yume, back toward the wall.
Yume put a hand on her forehead, "Ok, hang on a second here...You want me, to go with you to help some stupid little girl in Japan that I don't even know, from an unknown power that you have no idea who it could belong to?"
"Exactly,"
She slumped down on a couch trying to remember everything that Eriol had told her about the year before. "Ok," she sighed, "I might as well...the report is due in 3 days and we wouldn't have time to finish it anyway..."
Eriol smiled, "Good. I'll tell Daidouji-san that we'll be coming." He walked out of the room to go find a phone.
Yume sighed again and curled up where she was on the couch. Why am I friends with Eriol in the first place, an way? she wondered, I mean, sure we were friends in our past lives, but why did we meet in this one too? Then she remembered that Eriol's pets were still in the room with her. Shooting a glance at them, she realized that they were both glaring at her. Oh great, I've pissed someone else off today...go me...
"What?" she said, sitting up.
"Oh, nothing," said Ruby Moon in a taunting voice, "Nothing at all..."
"Oh, it was something, otherwise neither of you would have been glaring at me,"
"We were just wondering why you speak to Eriol the way you do," said Spinel Sun, gliding over to sit in the chair that Eriol had previously left.
"Oh you were, were you?" said Yume, knowing exactly where this conversation was going to go, "And why is that?"
"Well," began Ruby Moon, "You never speak nicely to the master...hardly ever anyway, yet you've been friends with him since you both were babies..."she trailed off.
"Look, I know both of you are convinced that I have a crush on Eriol, but I can assure you that that is not the case," Yume began to get up, "I don't know why I am friends with that little twit either, but I am. Get over your little fantasies because I am not going to steal your precious master away from you."
"And where are you going off to?" taunted Ruby Moon, "Off you profess your hidden love to Eriol-sama?"
"Ha! You wish butterfly...if I'm going to Japan, I've got packing to do."
As Yume was leaving, Eriol came walking back in. The two friends collided with one another.
"OW! Eriol, watch where you're going!" yelled Yume, pushing the boy backward.
"Gomen, Yume," apologized Eriol for the third time that day, "Everything is planned though. I have enrolled us at Sejui High School, and Daidouji-san has invited both of us to stay with her at her house."
"Yay..." mumbled Yume, slightly twirling her finger, "When do we leave?"
"Our flight is tomorrow at 1:30 in the afternoon. I hope that's not too soon?"
"No problem...since we're staying with one of your friends, I don't have much stuff to bring...I assume that we'll be there for the rest of the year?"
"Correct"
"Okay...I'll come back here around 11:00 so we can make the flight..."
And with that, Yume strode out the parlor door. A minute later a faint rumbling could be heard as she started her motorcycle and drove off. Eriol walked away from the window, saddened by his best friend's sudden departure.
"You should tell her, you know," smiled Ruby Moon, "its not good to keep feelings like this bottled up."
"I know, Ruby, I know..." said Eriol sitting down on the couch that Yume had gotten up from moments ago. He picked up the throw pillow she had laid her head on and hugged it, burring his face in it. He drew a long breath. Her sent is still here, he thought dreamily, the mixed smell of nectarines and oranges... You have no idea, Yume...but even if I'll never have it in return, I love you...more than anything else in the world...
Author: OK! I think its time I gave you guys some information on this "Yume" girl that Eriol is so infatuated with!
Eriol fans: NO!! Take her out of the story!!
Author: Sorry guys! I love Eriol too!! But I can't take Yume out of the story...I have basically an idea of where I want this to go...and she's needed to get there!!
Anyway, info on Yume:
Her full name is Nozomi Yume, Yume being her given name.
She's been friends with Eriol her whole life, and there was something between her past self (Kareta Yumeko) and Clow Reed. I'm not gonna tell you what it was, because that would ruin the surprise!
Her birthday is October 31, and she is the same age as everyone else (13, I finally decided to make this a year after the second movie ended...I hope I did my math right!!)
Umm...her favorite subject is Science and loves to read.
Her past is very dark and no one except Eriol-kun has any idea what happened (and even he doesn't know the details!)
Also, you'd never guess that Yume-chan and Eriol-kun would be friends, since Eriol dresses very conservatively in collared shirts and stuff like that. Yume is the complete opposite, and loves to wear chains, collars, and baggy pants with fitted t-shirts. Basically she likes the whole Gothic/Punk-ish type styles and stuff, but she doesn't have tons of piercings, cause that really turns her off!
Most of what she wears is black or red, but sometimes she'll wear regular clothes and colors.
Obviously her favorite color(s) is black, red, blue and gray.
She's a very harsh and mean person on the outside, but once you get closer to her (which is really difficult) she's actually a kind person.
OK! That's all I'm going to tell you right now, because if I tell you much more, there won't be much stuff for you to learn on your own!