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A/N: I apologize for the late update (again), I have no real explanations other than the fact that I had some crappy nights' sleep and I didn't want to write anything while I was as good as drunk. I promise that I will not stop no matter what happens, (unless something like me dying occurs, but by no means, do not try to kill me if you want me to stop writing)
I am dedicating this chapter to: sakura.cherryblossom.kinomoto and Shirahime, the two most recent reviewers, I am grateful for your encouragement and just to let you guys know, you are the reason I'm updating right now instead of like, maybe a week later.
Black Eye Of The Tao Abyss
Chapter Five:
Forget-me-not
It has been three months since the incident at the airport, and ever since then, Syaoran has been in a coma in the Tokyo hospital. Sakura, Eriol, Tomoyo, and Meilin would come by frequently to check on him, to see if he would come back to consciousness any time soon. The hospital doctors were truly bugged with this case. It seemed that even though Syaoran lost an extreme amount of blood, he recovered with what seemed to be super-natural speed. After only a few hours and he was as strong as he ever was. The only problem was that they were not able to detect any brain waves from Syaoran.
Even after extensive surgery and other high-tech medical operations, the doctors pronounced Syaoran as being completely healthy except for the fact that he was still in some sort of a coma.
On one particular afternoon, Sakura went to visit Syaoran with somewhat of a burden on her heart. Just yesterday, she and Eriol had a mutual break up due to the fact that Sakura may actually have feelings for Syaoran instead of Eriol. Eriol, on the other hand acted like a gentleman about it thought he was still a man, and to salvage what was left of his pride, he said something about "keeping Syaoran's girl from other guys when he wasn't here" That wasn't exactly what was bothering her though.
The thing is, that after the break up, Sakura went home for a nap and apparently from what Kero said he saw, the time and dream cards merged and appeared to give Sakura a vision of the future. Though what Kero didn't see, was that at the same time, the Abyss card from her desk also shined and altered the effects of time and dream at that moment.
SAKURA'S VISION
Dead bodies scattered everywhere, and five main piles of these bodies caught her eye. On the top of each pile was someone close to her heart, dead of course. First, there was her father, then Touya, Meilin, Tomoyo, and finally, Eriol. Though Syaoran was not in sight. A noise behind her caused Sakura to turn around.
It was then that she saw the most horrifying sight in her life. There, amongst more dead bodies, was Syaoran, the only person that wasn't dead. He was holding a silver goblet, filling it with blood from his victims, drinking and savoring each and every drop. Syaoran then locked eyes with her, Sakura knew that it couldn't have been Syaoran because the eyes were hollow, no colour or emotion, just blank.
"Why?" Sakura asked, surprised that her voice was working.
"My, my, dear Sakura," the imposter Syaoran began, even his voice seemed to be able to strike and kill someone. "It was because of you that I died, if you were better at handling your cards, then I wouldn't be dead now would I? Look around you, I need blood to survive, and now I feast on your friends, and see†this is all your fault."
After that, the dead bodies began to rise, going towards her. The smelling of rotting flesh and the sight of exposed bones were making Sakura sick. The dead began to chant "All your fault" over and over again as she began to try and run away. However, Sakura definitely wasn't strong enough or fast enough because soon, she was held right before Syaoran. "Now, let's see what you taste like to me and my friends," Syaoran spat, as he raised his sword
END VISION
It was then that the vision ended and Sakura woke up drenched in a sheet of sweat. She was still thinking about the dream when she realized that she was sitting besides Syaoran's bed. It didn't even occur to her that she had been crying and she didn't have any intentions at the moment to stop. A few tears landed on Syaoran's hand and he began to stir. Though, still everything went unnoticed by Sakura.
"Why are you crying?" Li whispered, after all, he hadn't eaten or drank anything in 3 months.
A yelp form Sakura told Syaoran that she didn't know that he was up yet. "Syaoran!" Sakura yelled as she drew him into a tight hug, "I'm so glad that you're ok." She continued, not noticing the blush coming onto Syaoran's cheeks. 'Maybe I should get into a coma more often if this is the welcome I get when I come back.' Syaoran mused to himself.
After Syaoran and Sakura talked for about 2 hours catching up with everything that was going on, a nurse came by and told Syaoran that he was allowed to leave anytime now. Of course, being himself, Li wanted to prove that he could endure anything and would thus want to go home, but Sakura was insistent on him staying here and resting for at least one last day. With a couple dozens of promises of Sakura returning tomorrow and Syaoran being allowed to leave tomorrow, she left and returned home for the night, remembering to call he friends with the good news.
Sakura, Meilin, Tomoyo, and Eriol were heading for Tokyo General Hospital when an explosion from their destination told them to hurry up. Upon reaching the tenth floor (Syaoran's floor) of the hospital (much to the displeasure of the police), the gang saw that there was nothing but ashes in what used to be Syaoran's room. "Syaoran!" Sakura screamed as she ran into the room and began to dig in the piles of ashes in his former hospital room. After a few minutes of finding nothing, she collapsed onto the floor and was joined by Meilin and Tomoyo trying to comfort her. It was then that Eriol saw something green near the where the window was and decided to go and check it out.
"Sakura," Eriol began, as he took hold of the object, "I think you would want this." He then kneeled down and showed Sakura what he found. What Sakura saw nearly made her want to break down all over again. It was Syaoran's piece of the Lovers' Stone, the one that matched hers. She noticed that the amulet was no longer glowing in anyway. 'Does this mean that he's... he's...' Sakura started, but unconsciousness took over her body, not allowing her to finish her thought.
It was raining again. Figures, it always seemed to rain at a funeral. Though the police didn't find Syaoran's body, they pronounced him dead due to the fact that doctors said that that morning, Syaoran's body was weakening at an incredible rate.
The church building was filled from Syaoran's family even to those who were some of his hopeless rivals. Sakura was nowhere to be seen. After the accident at the hospital, she nearly always stayed in her room. Of course, even right now, when it was time for Syaoran's funeral, Sakura stayed in her room with her friends outside her door.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo shouted through the door. "You should at least pay your respects." "But it's my fault!" Sakura wept within her room, "If ...hic only I let him get... hic (hiccups)... get out the night before... hic... this wouldn't have happened!"
Eriol had had about enough of this. He walked to the door and said something that shocked everyone. "Sakura, I know that you can't bring back the dead, no matter how strong your magic might be. But if I was to tell you that there was a way for you to bring Syaoran back for a couple of hours for you two to say goodbye or something, would you GET OUT OF THAT ROOM?"
It was then that they heard the familiar click from within her room, signaling that she unlocked the door. Then, Sakura opened the door to let her friends in. "I'm listening" Sakura said, barely louder than a whisper.
Eriol cleared his throat and began, "As you know, the Rivals' game is being held this year. The winner would be allowed to keep the entire Abyss deck but only if he or she is able to maintain it. Within the full deck, is a card known as "Premature Death", it is as close as a person can get to brining back a person from the dead. The amount of hours the person is allowed to stay in the living world equals the amount years that the person missed during his life. Therefore, if Syaoran was meant to live something like 97 years maximum, and since he is 17 when he died, then he would be allowed 80 more hours of life. Though you must win the tournament for this to happen."
Silence followed Eriol's speech as everyone allowed this to sink in. "So all I have to do is enter the tournament and win" "That's right" Eriol said, " and to make sure that you have a better chance of winning, we can all enter the games together." This snapped Sakura from her dazed thoughts. "But only I have cards-" She began, but was interrupted by Meilin. "After you transformed every clow card to a star card, Eriol got the clow cards back and I learned to create my own cards the same time that Syaoran did. Then, we can teach Tomoyo magic too and we'd all be able to work on bringing back Syaoran."
"Really?" Sakura asked, hope began to shine through her emerald eyes. "Can you teach me?" Eriol and Meilin exchanged glances though in the end it was Eriol who spoke up. "I'm surprised that you haven't made one yet, but all you really need, is to imagine the card, how it looks like, and things like that. But what the card does must be something that you truly want."
Feeling a bit doubtful, Sakura closed her eyes and began to imagine cards that she already had. An image came to her but it was a bit unclear. She decided to ignore Tomoyo's gasp as she felt something in her hand. She then looked into her hands and saw a card that she had never seen before. Though before she could take a good look at it, she fainted.
Sakura woke up a few hours later and looked around her room, her friends were still there and had relieved looks pasted on their faces. "What happened?" Sakura asked. "Don't worry, everything's fine," Tomoyo cooed to her friend. "I should have told you that creating a card takes 75 of a person's energy," Eriol commented, running his hand through his hair nervously.
"I want to see my Card." Sakura stated stretching out her hand. Meilin went over to Sakura's desk and handed over a familiar pink card. The picture was a woman holding a necklace of forget-me-nots within her hands with a single tear sitting on her right cheek. She was sitting in a similar fashion as "time" and was wearing a white Victorian style dress with a black background and a beige moon.
Under the picture were the words "The Memory". "That was what I wanted." Sakura whispered to herself. "What?" Tomoyo asked, "What did you want?" "To forget, to forget about all that ever happened in these last few months." Sakura replied. It was then that the memory card glowed along with another card from the rest of Sakura's deck. She soon realized that the other card was "Mirror" and with a white flash, a ghostly Syaoran appeared before them. "Go a head and forget Sakura, you're weaker then when I first saw you." He said with disgust in his voice. Then the image was gone and everything was back to normal.
"Sakura," Tomoyo began but was silenced by her friend. "He's right, I can't be weak now, I have to remember and build on my losses." Sakura said. "And we'll be right here behind you Sakura." Eriol said, Meilin and Tomoyo nodding in agreement. 'I knew you would make me proud Sakura, after all, your determination is just one of the reasons I fell for you' a disembodied voice said. Sakura heard this and was sure that Syaoran was right next to her. However, it appeared that no one else heard this so Sakura decided to not share this with the others just yet.
A/N: Whew, I'm done! I'm so proud. Please don't stop read this fic because Syaoran appeared to have died (WINK WINK) please have patience you won't regret it. That's all for this time, please tell me if you guys want lemons in this fic. I still want the vote settled. Thanks to you guys for reading this and I'll post the next chapter as soon as I update my other stories too. Please review and tell me what you guys think about this story.
S-S signing off