Back yet again. Oh boy! Chapter 10 is here! Sorry for making the chapters so short but I still love you guys, I promise.
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Chapter Ten: The Explaination
Sakura and Syaoran were shaken apart. The ground that the bench sat on split apart and they were each thrown in a different direction.
"Sakura!" Syaoran called out. She didn't respond. He saw her unconscious on the other side of the chasm which was slowly cracking apart the earth in her direction. The fear for her launched Biketh out of his repressed form. He jumped up and started to fly to her. Each breath he took began to fog up in front of his face. It was getting colder by the second. And to Biketh's dismal surprise, ice had begun to grow on Sakura's bare legs.
He reached her and shook her in his arms. When her eyes didn't open he punched the ice off her legs and lifted her up to carry her off.
While he was running Sakura stirred in his arms. She looked up at his relieved face and didn't understand who he was. Then she looked back at the icy chasm gaining on them.
"Put me down!" she cried to the creature holding her. He stopped and placed her on the ground. She turned to face the chasm. "Freeze! Return to the form you were meant to be!" she called as the staff transformed in front of her. The ice turned into a dragon creature and dove into the card at the tip of Sakura's staff. She snatched the card and looked at it for a second before tossing it back out to her staff.
"Freeze, come to my aid! Freeze the ground!" Sakura commanded the creature that once again sprang from the card. It flew at the growing chasm and stopped it instantly. "Earthy! Return to the form you were meant to be!" she shouted again and a woman arose from the chasm. She flew into a new card produced by the staff. Sakura pocketed the cards and shrunk the staff back into the key pendant. She hung it around her neck and turned to face the creature.
She took in his long brown hair, his black wings, and the fangs. "So you're Biketh? That means you did have fangs when I was talking to you this morning," she smiled as she clapped her hands together like a child. He nodded in shock.
"Yes, I am Biketh, the Destroyer. Eriol is the human form of my Guardian friend, Samoel, the Waker. Your friend Meiling is the cousin of my human form, Syaoran. She, like you, has no memory of before a year ago. Tomoyo does not either. Meiling houses the Guardian Legebra, the Rememberer, and Tomoyo holds the Guardian Nanra, the Sleeper. There are two other Guardians of the Bells that we have not found yet in their human form. But they are Ridym, the Summoner, and Rastael, the Sorrow bringer," Biketh explained. Sakura had seated herself on the reformed bench that had returned to normal after her capture of the two cards.
"I've read books. I thought the Guardians of the Bells weren't real. And, besides, you're missing one," Sakura countered. Biketh smirked at her.
"I see I can get nothing past you, m'lady," he said as he bowed. She frowned at him. "You, Sakura Kinomoto, are the human shelter for the greatest Guardian, Rethasa, the Binder and Wielder," he said. Sakura's mouth dropped. She was the greatest out of all the celestial Bell Guardians? It couldn't be.
"I know you're thinking it couldn't be true," Biketh said.
"So what, you're a mind reader too?" she smirked as she tried to regain her composure. He smiled at her.
"The scars on your back are no ordinary cuts. They're from the Guardian's crystals."
Sakura started laughing. "I knew you had the wrong person!" she said. Biketh looked at her warily.
"I can feel Rethasa sleeping within you," he said.
"Where's the camera crew? You're not fooling me," she replied as she looked around her to spot something.
"I'm not lying to you, Sakura," he hissed as he grabbed her shoulders. Her grin went to a glare as she stared into his wild amber eyes.
"If you're not lying how come there're not cuts on my back?" she yelled. "How come nothing you've said has any basis of truth? I am not the Guardian Rethasa that you are looking for! I doubt she even exists. This is probably some sick game and none of it exists. You have the wrong person," she bit out. Then she turned on her heel and walked away.
Biketh turned back into Syaoran a minute later and he ran off in the direction she went. But he couldn't find her. She had completely disappeared to his sight. He turned around and stalked off to his bike, muttering something to himself.
Little did he know, Sakura was right above him. Right above him, in a tree with a hand over her mouth. She had tried to call out to him but the hand was too strong and muffling. "Hello, my dear," a voice whispered in her ear. She shivered and a muffled yell escaped her lips. "No, my dear. Nobody can save you now," the voice said as they flew off through the trees.