The Hope Spell.
By: Princess Lalaith
"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, snif; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 18.- The Ball.
"Merry Christmas!" Hermione yelled waking up Sakura and Tomoyo.
"Ah...five more minutes oka-san..." Sakura murmured, still half asleep.
"Ohayo Sakura-chan." Tomoyo said kneeling next to her. "Wake up, Today it's Christmas!"
"Christmas!" Sakura shouted standing up.
"Lets go to the boys dormitories." Hermione suggested.
"Isn't that forbidden?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah." Hermione said with a playful smile. "But no one will know."
With that the three girls ran to the boys dormitories.
"It's locked." Tomoyo said after trying the knob.
"That's no problem." Sakura said, she put her hand on the knob. "Lock."
There was a faint light and the door opened.
"Oh I wish I could do something like that." Hermione murmured fascinated,
Even if it had been about a month since she knew about her friends powers, still she got some surprises once in a while.
"Merry Christmas minna-san!" Sakura yelled as she stepped in.
Harry and Ron(who were the only ones inside) almost fell off the beds at the sound of the girls voices.
"I thought I had locked that door last night, and with a couple of spells." Harry murmured standing up. "How could you pass?"
"Himitsudesu." Sakura answered.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Ron asked rubbing his eyes.
"It means: That's a secret." Sakura said with an innocent smile.
"Now hurry, open your presents!" Tomoyo said with a big smile, handing the presents she had brought.
The boys resigned about having the girls there and started opening the presents.
Everyone got hand-made sweaters from Mrs. Weasley: Ron's was dark-red, Harry's green, Tomoyo's purple, and Sakura's pink. Ron gave everyone candy, petards, smoke booms and other magic toys(courtesy of the Weasley twins). Harry gave Ron an equipment to clean and polish his broom, to Tomoyo and Sakura magic mirrors that told you how you looked, and to Hermione a set of crystal-animals that seemed to be alive, with all and a transparent box to display them. Tomoyo gave everybody magic clocks that not only gave the time but remembered you were you should be in that time. Hermione gave: to Ron the Book "History of Quidditch", to Harry a video-tape where she had recorded everything that had happened on the Halloween night.
"How did you...?" Harry started, tears started running from his eyes, he couldn't believe it.
"Like Sakura says: Himitsudesu." Hermione said smiling, she took out a handkerchief and dried Harry's tears with it.
"Thank you." Harry said taking her hands in his, a sincere smile in his face.
"Your welcome." Hermione said, smiling too.
Thank you for your help, Sakura. Hermione mind talked.
It was a pleasure to help you, for me and for Return. Sakura answered.
Just then Sakura gave out small boxes to the boys.
Inside where two necklaces, one for each, it was made from what looked like silver, and with their initial, Ron's in what looked like rubies, and Harry's in emeralds.
"Sakura, I can't accept this." Ron said looking at the collar, "It must be really expensive."
"Ron's right." Harry nodded.
"No." Sakura said smiling. "It's not, and it is magic, it'll protect you."
After a couple of minutes arguing, both boys accepted the necklace and put it on.
"You didn't give presents to each other." Ron commented.
"In some way we already did." Hermione said smiling.
"And now we have another reunion to attend." Tomoyo added. "Let's go."
"Reunion?" Ron asked. "Where? With who?"
"Is this an interrogatory Ron?" Hermione asked with false anger.
"We're going to meet with Shaoran, and then probably have some breakfast." Sakura interrupted. "Let's go shojos(girls)."
With that the three friends left.
"Is it me, or Hermione has gotten really attached to those foreigners." Ron said mad.
"She almost doesn't look at us now." Harry said, more than mad he sounded sad.
"Ohayo minna-san! Merry Christmas!" The girls chorused when they entered the Sorcerers' Room.
"Ohayo girls." Eriol said. He immediately hugged Tomoyo and kissed her. Then he murmured. "Merry Christmas hime(princess)."
Shaoran followed his idea and hugged Sakura and kissed her.
"This is so romantic..." Hermione sighed.
"My daughter would say Kawai, which means cute." Sonomi said. "And it is."
"Merry Christmas Mistress." The Sakura Cards chorused(the real ones, not the paintings).
In that moment the room was filled with candy, snow, ice-figures, glooms, and all you can imagine.
"This is beautiful!" Hermione explained. She sighed again. "I wish the guys could see it."
"One day they will Hermy-chan." Sakura said, next to her. "One day we'll tell them who we truly are, but not today."
Hermione nodded.
"And..." Eriol said. "Time for the presents."
Eriol gave Shaoran a book with new techniques of martial arts, Sonomi a purple coat, Hermione the book "Witchcarft, Wizardry and Sorcery.", Tomoyo a beautiful sapphire bracelet, and Sakura a crystal Cherry-blossom.
"Eriol this is perfect." Hermione said with a big smile. "How did you got it."
"I have my ways." Eriol said with a smile.
Shaoran gave Hermione a small key, Tomoyo two violet hair pins with the shape of lilac flowers, Sonomi a jewel-box made of glass, Eriol a box with some things, and Sakura a beautiful gold necklace with an amethyst cherry blossom that in the back had the initials S&S.
"It is beautiful Shaora-kun! Arigato!" Sakura yelled hugging Shaoran.
"I'm glad you liked it Ying Fa." Shaoran said smiling.
"Domo Arigato." Tomoyo and Sonomi said at once bowing slightly.
Hermione looked at her gift, without understanding completely what it was for.
"It's a magic key." Shaoran explained. "With it you can open any door, or any lock."
Hermione smiled. "Thank you." She said, bowing a little.
"But what's that?" Sonomi asked looking at Eriol's gift.
"That." Shaoran said. "Are some of the personal possessions of Clow Reed, Eriol's past life, I thought he would be interested in having them, so I asked one of my sisters to send it."
"Arigato, cute little descendant." Eriol said with a smile.
Shaoran looked at him with a warning glance.
"Onegai..." Sakura started.
"Can you just for one day..." Tomoyo continued.
"Quit fighting." Both finished.
Both boyfriends looked at them like little kids being punished by their moms.
The girls couldn't help but laugh at that. And the rest laughed as well.
Hermione gave Eriol and Shaoran figures for their magic chest, to Sonomi a magic agenda where that would tell her when she had something to do, and to Tomoyo and Sakura magic-pins that changed color with each movement the person made.
"Thank you." The five Asians said.
"Thank you for all you've done for me." Hermione replied.
"And my present?" Eriol asked looking at Tomoyo.
"Don't you see it?" Tomoyo asked with a playful smile. "It is right in front of you."
"Oh I see." Eriol said smiling. "Then I'll take it."
He hugged Tomoyo and pulled her to him, kissing her passionately. After a couple of minutes they had to break apart because of the lack of air. And Tomoyo was still dizzy.
"I want a gift like that one." Shaoran murmured with a grin.
"Then why don't you take it?" Sakura asked grinning as well.
Both smiled and kissed as well.
Hermione sighed. They looked so happy. If just she could be as happy as them...
"Hey guys, We're missing something here." Tomoyo said.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"Our gift, for you." Sakura answered.
"Oh, no, you've already done a lot for me." Hermione said with a smile.
"Hai." Tomoyo agreed. "But that was for Harry. This is for you."
"There's no need, really." Hermione insisted.
"There's no problem." Sakura said.
Sakura moved her hand and two of the Cards gave her a small object. She gave it to Hermione.
"Open it, Hermy-chan." Sakura said smiling.
Hermione opened the box. Inside was what looked like compact-makeup. Hermione opened it, there was a mirror.
"That's a magic mirror." Tomoyo explained. "If you say someone's name it'll show you that person, and if they're near a mirror they'll be able to talk with you. They'll only see you if that mirror is magic too."
"Wow..." Hermione was speechless. "I don't know what to say girls. This is wonderful. But it is very rare too. How did you...?"
"Everything is easy when you're talking about five sorcerers." Sakura replied smiling. "We created that for you. We thought you would like it."
"I do." She smiled widely. "Thank you so much."
"Do itashimashite." The girls chorused.
"It means 'You're welcome." Sonomi added.
Hermione nodded.
A week passed and it finally was New Year's Eve. The day of the Ball.
The boys where waiting in a Room next to the Great Hall. They were supposed to enter from one side of the room, and the girls from the other. They would be masked. If they wanted they could dance, the interesting thing was that, with the masks, it was going to be difficult to know who was dancing with who.
The clock rang seven and the doors opened. Everyone entered the Great Hall. They were all wearing old-fashioned clothes and masks.
Harry was wearing dark-green pants, white shirt and olive-green jacket, his mask was light green. Ron was wearing brown pants, beige shirt and dark-red jacket, his mask was red. Eriol was wearing black pants, light gray shirt and dark blue jacket –it looked more like a short robe, his mask was night- blue. Shaoran was wearing dark-brown pants, kaki shirt, and green jacket –his also looked more alike a short robe, his mask was jade-green. (If you have seen "Ever After..." imagine clothes of that kind.)
In the other side the girls entered. Hermione was wearing a golden dress with cinnamon ribbons, her hair pulled in a half ponytail, her mask was golden too. Tomoyo was wearing a light purple dress with lavender ribbons, her hair pulled in a fancy bun with a few locks loose, her mask was violet. Sakura was wearing a pink dress with white ribbons, in her hair she had made a little braid and pinned it around her head so it looked like some kind of crown, her mask was silver.
"Welcome students to our first Masked Ball." Dumbledore called. "And enjoy yourselves."
It the room they could hear orchestra music.
"It's almost as if we had really travel three hundred years in the past." Hermione said fascinated.
"Yes it is." Tomoyo murmured.
Sakura had already left to dance with Shaoran.
"Excuse me." A voice said behind the girls. "I'm looking for a lost princess. Do you know where I can find her?"
"Probably you already did." Tomoyo replied smiling.
"Would you dance with me my princess?" Eriol asked.
"I would be honor to, my prince." Tomoyo replied, taking his hand.
So they left to dance.
"Hermione?" a voice asked.
"Harry?" Hermione asked turning around.
"Yeah, it's me." Harry said.
"You look handsome in those cloths." Hermione said.
Oh God, did I just said that? she mind asked.
Yes you did. Eriol's voice mind-replied.
Hermione thanked the mask she was wearing so Harry wouldn't notice she was blushing.
"Well, Hermione." Harry murmured. "I was wondering if you...would dance with me?"
"It will be a pleasure Harry." Hermione murmured smiling.
So both got to the stage and started dancing between the rest of the couples.
"Is that Tomoyo?" Harry asked after a couple of minutes.
"Yes." Hermione answered looking at her friend.
"Who is she with?" Harry asked curios.
"Her prince." Hermione replied.
But she said no more.
A few of hours passed, and everyone was enjoying the dance a lot.
Sonomi, who had dressed in a dark-red dress had kept Snape busy so he wouldn't try to find out who Tomoyo was with.
It was almost midnight, and Shaoran had left to get some drinks when Sakura suddenly had a strange feeling.
"Something is wrong here." She said in a low voice.
Guys... She mentally called.
Yeah, I feel it. Came Shaoran's mental-replied.
He left the cups he had just gotten for him and his girlfriend and got to the closest door.
We felt it too. Came Eriol's and Tomoyo's voice.
They had stopped dancing and were trying to get to the door unnoticed.
Guys, what's happening? Came Hermione's question.
Don't worry Hermy-chan. Sakura said. You remember what I told you? About the dream I had?
Yeah... Hermione replied.
It's time for it to come true. Sakura said. Remember what we told you to do.
Once you se we're out seal the doors with the wards I gave you. Shaoran added.
And tell oka-san to do the same with the ones we gave to her. Tomoyo added.
I will. Hermione answered. And please...O daijini(Take care).
Hai. the four friends replied.
"Is everything okay Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Yes Harry, don't worry." Hermione answered, as she turned to see her friends leaving. "It's just that I'm thirsty. I'll go get some drinks, do you want something?"
"No." Harry answered.
"Ok." Hermione said. "I'll go get something for me then. Be right back."
Harry nodded.
Hermione left.
"Hermy..." Harry murmured once she couldn't hear him. "What are you hiding?"
Hermione signaled to Sonomi and she went to her.
"What's happening?" she asked. "I can feel something's wrong."
"The dream Sakura told us about." Hermione answered. "They think it is about to come true. He must seal the doors with the magic wards."
Sonomi nodded.
Just then they heard a few girls screaming. They turned around and gasped. Out the window, in the sky: Voldemort's signal
Finally I'm done with this chapter. It took me a while to get inspired, but I think I did good(you tell me what you think). The Christmas presents was the most difficult part for me, I didn't know what to give to each of them. But I can tell you now that the presents Hermione received: the key, the mirror, and even the book, might come in handy later on.
In the next chapter the first battle of the Sorcerers against Voldemort. They don't want the Death Eaters to find out who they are, yet, what will they do?
And please...Onegai...por favor...click that bottom down there and leave me a review, they're very valuable for me, really.
See ya in the next chapter.
Arigato.