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Chapter Fourteen
"And so, seventy days after death, the pharaoh's mummy is ready to be buried in the Valley of the Kings. KV5 is a recently excavated tomb that has a labyrinth of corridors..." Eriol stopped reading as Syaoran pressed the left button on the computer. The class had to resort to using a projector to project the Power Point presentations onto a white wall. One student had made the painful mistake of hitting the wall with their knuckles, and let's just say that it wasn't a pretty sight.
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"Wow! That was so interesting! I never knew my dad's work could be so fun to learn!" Sakura was chatting enthusiastically with Syaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol while waving her fork around wildly in the air.
"I mean, in the Mummy Returns, it says that Anubis was the one to attack Karnac, or some other city. But in reality, it would've been more likely to be Seth."
"Anubis is the jackal-headed god of embalming and the Lord of the Mortuary. However, Seth was the one who slaughtered his brother, Osiris, and then waged war with Osiris' son, Horus. Pharaohs, during life, identified themselves with Horus, but after death became Osiris. Since the Scorpion King in the movie hated the Pharaoh, it would make more sense for Seth to be the God who helped the Scorpion King, or perhaps Meretserger, since she is the scorpion goddess," Syaoran said, not looking up from his sandwich. Tomoyo and Sakura looked at Syaoran, bug-eyed. Syaoran looked up, saw them, and proceeded to scowl at them.
"I think we stayed up to late last night," Eriol said. Syaoran started to blush at that comment.
"Oh, really? What were you doing?" Tomoyo asked in a wheedling sort of voice. Syaoran turned an even brighter red.
"What else would we be doing but working on our project?" Eriol asked, pretending to sound completely innocent.
"Yeah, especially after SOMEPEOPLE locked us in a gym together!" Syaoran yelled, who had, by this time, blushed a dark burgundy. Tomoyo smiled serenely, and Sakura looked faintly embarrassed.
"Sooo, have any interesting dreams?" Sakura asked, desperately trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, actually, I did. It was really weird, there were purple trees..." by this point in time, Syaoran was just muttering nonsense under his breath.
"Wait, did you just say, "Green hurricanes,"?"
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A/N: Ok, so they would eat with hashi, and probably wouldn't take sandwiches, but I don't feel like calling my grandma up to ask what she ate in school, so sandwiches and forks they shall have. And if you don't like it then you can...
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Chapter Fifteen
A/N: Ok, thanks to all the reviewers who said they didn't care about the standstill, and (I think) waited patiently for the next chapter to come out, especially after that incredibly arrogant A/N at the end of one of my earlier chapters. I'm really, really, really, reallyX1000 times sorry about that one. Yep, maturity rate dropped to three.
Lady Selene Li: Well, I'm really touched that this is your first time reading yaoi, and that you didn't automatically say, "Ewww, that's disgusting!", so I guess that counts as something. Then again, my fic isn't NC-17 or R, so...
Happy Birthday, Tainted Angel-ai! Hmm, for a present, how about I incorporate the story to include orange ones. I think I've got an idea for it, too. No, really. I would be cool to have another dream about trees and Syaoran going outside, and say...light a tree on fire...
I seem to have developed an addiction to these: ... Don't know what they're called though. I can only wish I owned CCS.
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"Oh, come on Syaoran, pleeeeaaaaasssseeee tell what the dream was about," Sakura pouted.
Syaoran sighed. "If it gets you to stop following me around everywhere, pleading for me to tell you, then sure."
"Yea!"
A few minutes later
"Okay, the color purple represents authority, majesty or law. Now, it can either be referring to another person or yourself. If it was yourself, it could mean that you need to act more confident, or tone down a bit on the ego. If it is another person, it represents a quality of theirs," Sakura had quickly scanned the passage entitled "purple" in her The Complete Book of Dreams by Julia and Derek Parker.
"I somehow doubt that it would be another person" Syaoran stated.
"Ok, then it means you have to tone down on your ego," Kero had come out of the bag.
"Shut up you little..." Syaoran trailed off as Sakura hurriedly stuffed the Sun guardian into her book bag.
"It was a purple beech tree, right?" Sakura received a nod in response from Syaoran. "'A beech represents selfishness, narrow-mindedness, sorrow and even cruelty.' Well, since this is describing you, I would have to say that 'purple' is describing someone else. I'm not completely positive, but it's now more of a possibility. After that, there was a green hurricane emitting red lightening, right?"
Syaoran nodded again.
"Umm, the color green describes...it has to do with how you deal with situations. A hurricane symbolizes...comments a relationship. Is there someone you forgot to tell me about?" Sakura asked, not unkindly.
"No."
"Aright then. It can be interpreted as an argument with a loved one, but since you denied being in a romantic relationship, then the hurricane must be denial."
"WHAT?!?!"
"The hurricane must symbolize denial."
"I know that."
"Then why did you ask?"
"Just...just keep going.
"Red represents romance, of course, or anger. That doesn't really help, except that you're relationship...denial then, includes either romance or anger. Of course, it could be anger at the qualities that the beech represented. Lightening represents that you have "seen the light" and is reassuring you that that light is true."
"What?"
"Exactly my question. Now, no offense, but I want to get this over with otherwise, we'll be late for our next class. So, the lightening strikes people, and the people it strikes turns into blossoming flowers. Blossoming flowers represent a budding relationship. That ties in with the whole denial thing, since you are also watering the flowers, which means that you are working on a relationship. However, since you said that there was a purple wall with hands holding you back means that your arrogance was keeping you away from nurturing your relationship with whoever the person is." Syaoran looked like he wanted to kill something.
"Then the wall disappeared, and a barren field took its place. The fact that the wall disappeared means that, when you find enough courage to deflate your ego a bit...well, the barren field is the artic landscape, and a n artic landscape comments on your emotional life. The fact that it was a minefield refers to a life full of difficulties and potential dangers. Also, since whenever you took a step forward, ice walls formed around you... I think I have it!"
"I'm almost afraid to find out now," Syaoran groaned.
"First," Sakura said, totally ignoring Syaoran, "you wore a mask of aloofness to keep you safe. Then, it started to hurt people, emotionally, kind of. When you finally fall in love with someone, the green wall represents denial. When you finally overcome your denial, your mask is to deeply ingrained into you, that you can't take it off, and the fact that a mysterious figure that heralded by the ambulance siren sound, means that whoever it is, is trying to help you overcome these fears of letting your masks down."
Syaoran stared at Sakura for a while. Finally he said, "That was the most complicated thing I have ever heard in my life, could you repeat that?"
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A/N: Yes Sakura and Syaoran are a bit OOC. Everyone in my fic is OOC, sort of. Sorry about that.
Chapter Fourteen
"And so, seventy days after death, the pharaoh's mummy is ready to be buried in the Valley of the Kings. KV5 is a recently excavated tomb that has a labyrinth of corridors..." Eriol stopped reading as Syaoran pressed the left button on the computer. The class had to resort to using a projector to project the Power Point presentations onto a white wall. One student had made the painful mistake of hitting the wall with their knuckles, and let's just say that it wasn't a pretty sight.
---- ---- ---- ----
"Wow! That was so interesting! I never knew my dad's work could be so fun to learn!" Sakura was chatting enthusiastically with Syaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol while waving her fork around wildly in the air.
"I mean, in the Mummy Returns, it says that Anubis was the one to attack Karnac, or some other city. But in reality, it would've been more likely to be Seth."
"Anubis is the jackal-headed god of embalming and the Lord of the Mortuary. However, Seth was the one who slaughtered his brother, Osiris, and then waged war with Osiris' son, Horus. Pharaohs, during life, identified themselves with Horus, but after death became Osiris. Since the Scorpion King in the movie hated the Pharaoh, it would make more sense for Seth to be the God who helped the Scorpion King, or perhaps Meretserger, since she is the scorpion goddess," Syaoran said, not looking up from his sandwich. Tomoyo and Sakura looked at Syaoran, bug-eyed. Syaoran looked up, saw them, and proceeded to scowl at them.
"I think we stayed up to late last night," Eriol said. Syaoran started to blush at that comment.
"Oh, really? What were you doing?" Tomoyo asked in a wheedling sort of voice. Syaoran turned an even brighter red.
"What else would we be doing but working on our project?" Eriol asked, pretending to sound completely innocent.
"Yeah, especially after SOMEPEOPLE locked us in a gym together!" Syaoran yelled, who had, by this time, blushed a dark burgundy. Tomoyo smiled serenely, and Sakura looked faintly embarrassed.
"Sooo, have any interesting dreams?" Sakura asked, desperately trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, actually, I did. It was really weird, there were purple trees..." by this point in time, Syaoran was just muttering nonsense under his breath.
"Wait, did you just say, "Green hurricanes,"?"
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A/N: Ok, so they would eat with hashi, and probably wouldn't take sandwiches, but I don't feel like calling my grandma up to ask what she ate in school, so sandwiches and forks they shall have. And if you don't like it then you can...
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Chapter Fifteen
A/N: Ok, thanks to all the reviewers who said they didn't care about the standstill, and (I think) waited patiently for the next chapter to come out, especially after that incredibly arrogant A/N at the end of one of my earlier chapters. I'm really, really, really, reallyX1000 times sorry about that one. Yep, maturity rate dropped to three.
Lady Selene Li: Well, I'm really touched that this is your first time reading yaoi, and that you didn't automatically say, "Ewww, that's disgusting!", so I guess that counts as something. Then again, my fic isn't NC-17 or R, so...
Happy Birthday, Tainted Angel-ai! Hmm, for a present, how about I incorporate the story to include orange ones. I think I've got an idea for it, too. No, really. I would be cool to have another dream about trees and Syaoran going outside, and say...light a tree on fire...
I seem to have developed an addiction to these: ... Don't know what they're called though. I can only wish I owned CCS.
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"Oh, come on Syaoran, pleeeeaaaaasssseeee tell what the dream was about," Sakura pouted.
Syaoran sighed. "If it gets you to stop following me around everywhere, pleading for me to tell you, then sure."
"Yea!"
A few minutes later
"Okay, the color purple represents authority, majesty or law. Now, it can either be referring to another person or yourself. If it was yourself, it could mean that you need to act more confident, or tone down a bit on the ego. If it is another person, it represents a quality of theirs," Sakura had quickly scanned the passage entitled "purple" in her The Complete Book of Dreams by Julia and Derek Parker.
"I somehow doubt that it would be another person" Syaoran stated.
"Ok, then it means you have to tone down on your ego," Kero had come out of the bag.
"Shut up you little..." Syaoran trailed off as Sakura hurriedly stuffed the Sun guardian into her book bag.
"It was a purple beech tree, right?" Sakura received a nod in response from Syaoran. "'A beech represents selfishness, narrow-mindedness, sorrow and even cruelty.' Well, since this is describing you, I would have to say that 'purple' is describing someone else. I'm not completely positive, but it's now more of a possibility. After that, there was a green hurricane emitting red lightening, right?"
Syaoran nodded again.
"Umm, the color green describes...it has to do with how you deal with situations. A hurricane symbolizes...comments a relationship. Is there someone you forgot to tell me about?" Sakura asked, not unkindly.
"No."
"Aright then. It can be interpreted as an argument with a loved one, but since you denied being in a romantic relationship, then the hurricane must be denial."
"WHAT?!?!"
"The hurricane must symbolize denial."
"I know that."
"Then why did you ask?"
"Just...just keep going.
"Red represents romance, of course, or anger. That doesn't really help, except that you're relationship...denial then, includes either romance or anger. Of course, it could be anger at the qualities that the beech represented. Lightening represents that you have "seen the light" and is reassuring you that that light is true."
"What?"
"Exactly my question. Now, no offense, but I want to get this over with otherwise, we'll be late for our next class. So, the lightening strikes people, and the people it strikes turns into blossoming flowers. Blossoming flowers represent a budding relationship. That ties in with the whole denial thing, since you are also watering the flowers, which means that you are working on a relationship. However, since you said that there was a purple wall with hands holding you back means that your arrogance was keeping you away from nurturing your relationship with whoever the person is." Syaoran looked like he wanted to kill something.
"Then the wall disappeared, and a barren field took its place. The fact that the wall disappeared means that, when you find enough courage to deflate your ego a bit...well, the barren field is the artic landscape, and a n artic landscape comments on your emotional life. The fact that it was a minefield refers to a life full of difficulties and potential dangers. Also, since whenever you took a step forward, ice walls formed around you... I think I have it!"
"I'm almost afraid to find out now," Syaoran groaned.
"First," Sakura said, totally ignoring Syaoran, "you wore a mask of aloofness to keep you safe. Then, it started to hurt people, emotionally, kind of. When you finally fall in love with someone, the green wall represents denial. When you finally overcome your denial, your mask is to deeply ingrained into you, that you can't take it off, and the fact that a mysterious figure that heralded by the ambulance siren sound, means that whoever it is, is trying to help you overcome these fears of letting your masks down."
Syaoran stared at Sakura for a while. Finally he said, "That was the most complicated thing I have ever heard in my life, could you repeat that?"
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A/N: Yes Sakura and Syaoran are a bit OOC. Everyone in my fic is OOC, sort of. Sorry about that.