I'm back! YaYa! On with Chapter 4.
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Chapter Four: The Calling
Sakura woke in the morning to hear a soft melodic sound throughout the halls. A voice was singing but she couldn't pinpoint its exact origin. Then she heard a resounding "Good morning!" from her bedside.
"Tomoyo is that you?" Sakura mumbled as she turned her head into her pillow.
"Yes! And you have school, little missy!" she scolded like a mother. Sakura giggled and reluctantly got up. Tomoyo handed her clothes to her and left the room. Sakura got ready quickly and bolted down the stairs.
"Hello Mr. Futoji!" Sakura said in a cute voice. He smiled in return as she grabbed a piece of toast. Syaoran walked in right as she was finishing her toast. "Ohayo, Syao-kun!" she said happily as she skipped from the room. Syaoran just stared after her with his mouth wide open. Futoji just shrugged and smiled.
"I have to go to school now! Bye Mr. Futoji!" she said as she gave him a quick peck on the cheek, as a daughter would do to her father, and started for the door.
"Hey Sakura I can give you a ride," Syaoran offered. She accepted quickly and headed after him to a motorcycle. She hopped on after him and he drove off. Sakura's arms were tight around his waist as they rode on.
A small crowd was gathered around the school grounds as Sakura and Syaoran rode up. Akito stood, glaring, in the middle of the pack. "Let me handle this," Sakura whispered in his ear. He nodded curtly but stayed put just in case.
"Sakura, I order you to get over here this instant!" he yelled at her from the crowd. A girl with blonde hair and bright blue eyes stood very close to him at his right.
"Looks like you have a new girlfriend. Go marry her instead," Sakura smirked. Akito growled at her as she walked past him and into the building. Then he looked over to Syaoran.
"Look at what you did, you idiot! You're loosing me my wife!" he yelled at him from a safe distance. A flash went across Syaoran's eyes. Biketh was here again. Biketh's eyes turned to black slits and fangs protruded from his mouth. A pair of large black wings sprouted from his back and covered his body. He emerged in all black and his long braid of chocolate brown hair flew out behind him.
The kids around him looked in shock as Biketh stepped forward and his hand flew around Akito's neck.
"You dare challenge me, mortal?" a low hiss escaped from his mouth. Akito attempted to shake his head furiously but the grip around his neck was too strong.
Sakura looked out the window on the way to her classroom to see Akito and a man completely in black. "Oh no," she muttered to herself. She turned and walked back to the main entrance of the school. She laid her stuff down on a nearby bench and pushed through the crowd to watch with her friend, Chiharu. She looked around and saw Syaoran's motorcycle but not him. Then she looked back at the creature. Almost immediately realization struck her. The creature was Syaoran!
All of a sudden a strong power over-took her body. Large pale-green feathery wings sprouted from her back and enveloped her. People on all sides of her scrambled away from her in fright. When she emerged from her cage of feathers a light green dress was draped over her small shoulders. A small emerald gem resided on a choker around her neck. Her long auburn hair flowed freely around her face.
"Listhe, Nahma, Biketh. Sai, Kiae brako," she spoke in the tongue of the guardians. "Va cathra; Taho nieko." To everyone's surprise the creature backed down. The wings covered him again and Syaoran could be seen once more. Sakura had gone back to normal as well. Everyone stared as Syaoran got on his motorcycle and rode off, and Sakura fainted to the ground.
"Sakura? Sakura!" Chiharu called as she ran over to her friend. Sakura sat up slowly.
"Hoe? Where am I?" she said as she sat up. She looked around like she had gone somewhere completely different and had just come back.
"Come on, Sakura; get up now," Himitsu ordered. He grabbed her by the wrist and yanked her to her feet.
"Let go of her, idiot! Can't you see she's not ok?" Chiharu yelled at him angrily. He reached out to hit her across the face but a small and powerful hand grabbed his wrist. He looked over to see Sakura glaring at him.
"If you ever try to hurt my friends again, I will personally see to it that you will never lay a finger on anybody ever again," she threatened. He stepped backwards and started to laugh. Then he turned to Chiharu and knocked her to the ground.
"Whatcha gonna do about it, slap me?" he mocked as Takashi ran to his girlfriend's side.
"I told you not to touch my friends, and it seemed that you touched the wrong one, because now you have Takashi after your butt as well," she told him as she smirked. Himitsu just laughed at her. Sakura took a step forward and punched him right in the gut. He stumbled back a few steps but quickly regained his composure. She stepped up again and then punched him in the face. A huge red and purple bruise started to form on the side of his face, and blood was pouring from his nose freely. He stared at her in disbelief as a girl from the crowd came and helped him to the nurse. She spat at the ground where Sakura stood and glared as they walked inside.
"The Bells have learned to master their powers so quickly? How can this be? Oh well, it doesn't matter. You may go now Rastael. Bring them to me!" a figure said from a chair in the middle of the dark room. Seven bells sat on the table next to him. He raised the largest one and rung it once in a large sweeping motion. A man in the dark corner straightened suddenly and his black wings spread out of his back and he flew swiftly away.
His long silver hair flew after him, clenched together tightly by a purple band. A long black robe hung loosely from his shoulders and was bound around his waist by a dark purple rope. His deep grey eyes mesmerized all that looked upon them. With his eyes he could bend anyone's mind to his will.
He flew over the small town of Tomeda. A slight smirk crossed his face as he spotted the first of the Bells. The girl was Rethasa, the Binder, but only when the time called for it. He landed gracefully behind a bush and transformed. And older boy appeared. His short silver hair fluttered around his bright golden eyes. He looked about 20 years old, which, lucky enough for him, was still young enough to be on the school's campus.
"Hey Touya!" the young man said as he strode up to a dark-haired boy near the entrance to the school. A young man of about the same age with short dark brown hair looked over to see the person who called his name.
"Hey Yuki! Long time no see! Did you just get back?" Touya asked with a glint in his eyes. Yuki saw it and smirked back.
"I see you haven't lost your touch," Yuki complemented.
"Yah, neither have you. So we have a new assignment?" he said softly as he looked around for eavesdroppers.
"Yes, it's time to destroy them, but I need the Summoner to awaken them, Ridym." Slowly a small light began to encircle the young men. Suddenly Touya emerged from the light in a different form. A black robe hung loosely from his shoulders and a large black staff with a sphere on the end was in his hand. His dark hair now grew to his shoulders and a tall magician's hat sat upon his head.
Rastael had also emerged from the light. "Hurry Ridym, call them here!" Rastael said impatiently. Ridym nodded and held his staff up to his lips. It shrunk to the size of a flute and a small bell hung from the end on a black rope.
"And so I said to him, 'That's not my dog! That's my wife!'" a man in his early fifties said while they were seated around a coffee table. Meiling, Eriol, and Tomoyo sat on a couch, shifting uncomfortably. All of a sudden a faint sound entered their ears. Low at first but it got steadily louder as the seconds passed by.
"Ridym, the Summoner," Eriol grunted as he tried to stop his body from walking towards the alluring sound. The other men in the room had sunk into their seats, in a deep sleep as the effects of the Summoner's horn played on. The group's feet moved and their bodies started to change to their true forms.
"Oh no!" Tomoyo said suddenly. Then her voice was cut off and Nanra was there instead of her. But Nanra wasn't really there either. Her eyes were glassy and her feet shuffled forward.
The same thing was going on with Legebra and Samoel as well. Each of their different bell calls played randomly from them as they continued to walk forward.
'Sakura! Help us!' Tomoyo's mind called out right before everything went black.
Listhe, Nahma, Biketh. – Now, stop Biketh.
Sai, kiae brako. – Hello, dear friend.
Va cathra; Taho nieko. – Go home; stay there.