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 24.- Supreme Sorcerers
Hermione was sitting in Gryffindor's Common Room, behind a pile of books and scrolls of parchments, while she helped Harry with the Potions assignment.
"Here." Hermione said taking a book from under the pile and handing it to Harry. "Here must say where to find the Sortelous weeds, in about the seventh or eighth chapter I think."
"Thank you Hermy." Harry said as he took the book and quickly passed the pages.
Suddenly Harry had a strange feeling, that something was about to happened. He was about to say something when...
"Good afternoon Tomoyo." Hermione said without taking her eyes from the parchment she was revising.
"Sakura-chan and...the Shonens(boys) expect us to be with them in about ten minutes." Tomoyo said.
"Fine." Hermione said while erasing a wrong word and writing it correctly. "Then give me five more minutes to finish this and then I'll catch up with you."
"As you wish." Tomoyo said as she left by the Portrait hole.
Hermione said nothing more, but continued correcting every spelling and grammatical mistake in her essay.
Harry looked silently at her for a couple of minutes.
"Everything alright Harry?" Hermione asked, finally looking to something else rather than the parchment.
"Yeah, it's just that...how did you know it was Tomoyo?" he asked.
"It was just a feeling." She replied.
Harry nodded, but didn't believed her completely; but he stayed in silent, he had promised her he wouldn't push her, that he would respect her secrets, and doings with the Asians until she decided to tell him. He just hoped she wouldn't take too long.
Hermione glanced at him from above her parchment, without him noticing, she could almost know what he was thinking, but no matter how much she wanted to tell him the truth: that her friends were sorcerers, that she was part-sorceress, and that they had been training her, and that the secrets were just an attempt to protect him....But no, Sakura and the rest had told her it was not yet time for him to know, it would soon be, but not yet.
She remembered her training two nights ago:
---Flashback---
They had decided to train her special abilities in between the rest of their training, which had increased from just Saturday afternoon, to Tuesday's and Thursday's nights as well. Her body ached sometimes, but not from physical pain, she had already overcome that, it was from the energy-drain, using Incantations and Sorcerers-level magic was harder than she had imagined. But she wasn't going to give up that easily, she never quit, always went on through all the training, and she tried to learn as quick and as much as with the martial arts.
On Tuesday afternoon they had done a general practice.
"Ok." Eriol said. "You've already learned how to feel auras, difference one from another, and hide your own."
"And you're doing pretty well in summoning energy-shields and domes." Sakura continued. "You just need to remember to concentrate in the hexes and curses that are being thrown at you, your body will know exactly what amount of energy you need to protect yourself."
"You just need to trust in yourself." Tomoyo added with a peaceful smile.
"Time to get started." Shaoran said, as serious as ever.
The training started, first Hermione against Sakura, the first with her cane, and the second with a magic sword; then she had fought Eriol with magic.
"Expelliarmus!" Eriol yelled.
Hermione managed to form a shield strong enough to keep her still, but she lost her wand. Instantly she panicked, it isn't as if she was in great danger but, in the other hand, the sorcerers did take training sessions seriously.
Don't panic Tomoyo spoke in her mind. You're not defeated yet.
But it's impossible for me to win without my wand. Hermione mentally-replied.
Iie, it isn't. Tomoyo insisted. You're a part-sorceress, the magic is in you, not in your wand. You just need to concentrate.
No, I can't. Hermione thought stubbornly.
Never say you can't. Tomoyo said seriously. Because just that single phrase will bring you down. You've done it before, to create the shield. Just concentrate. Trust in yourself.
Hermione nodded, and turned around just in time to see Eriol raising his wand against her again. But she was determined not to loose. She concentrated on the first spell that came to her mind.
"Desmaius!" she yelled, raising her hand at Eriol and with full concentration.
In just a fraction of a second her eyes glowed with a magic light, and suddenly that same light appeared in her hand, just for an instant after being shot right to Eriol. Who was too surprised to even tried to dodge it. It hit him fully, and he fell to the floor, not really unconscious, but dizzy nonetheless.
Hermione couldn't believe herself, a bright smile appeared one her lips. And just two seconds after that she dropped to her knees, breathing heavily.
"That was good for a start." Tomoyo said leaning at Eriol, to make sure he was perfectly fine. "Although next time you should concentrate in the spell you pretend to do, and that way you won't waist more energy than needed."
"So this was your idea hime?" Eriol said, it was more and statement than a question. "I thought you were in my side.
"I'm on nobody's side." Tomoyo said calmly. "And I thought the purpose of all this was to train her, that's why I told her to use magic."
Eriol just nodded, giving his girlfriend a quick peck on the cheek.
"I think it's enough for today." Shaoran said.
Sakura nodded as she made the Coliseum disappear and they were back at the Sorcerers' Room.
"Hermy-chan is already tired enough." Sakura said. "We should all take a good rest."
"I promise next time I'll do better." Hermione said as they were leaving the room.
"I know you will Hermy-chan." Sakura said.
"We all do Hermione-san." Eriol said. "You're brave, and stubborn, no wonder you have those powers and one day you'll be someone really important."
Hermione smiled and bowed thankfully, at the same time trying to hide her blushing face.
---End of Flashback.---
And now it was Thursday, and she was more than ready for tonight's training.
"Well, I'm done." Hermione said as she put away all her things.
She checked her clock, she had taken more than planned, it was already 10:28, and she was supposed to be at the Sorcerers' Room at 10:30.
'Well, now I really must run.' She thought.
"Good night Harry." She said kissing him in the cheek.
"Good night Hermy." Harry replied smiling to her.
Hermione went to her dorm to put everything away, and then left the Common Room by the portrait's hole.
Harry stood there for a couple of seconds, considering the option of following her, but what kind of boyfriend would he be if he didn't trust his own girlfriend? So he stayed where he was until he finished his homework, and then went to bed.
.
Hermione was thankful that Harry wasn't following her when she went to the Sorcerers Room. With the abilities she had acquired she could walk in the dark hallways, or even with closed eyes, she was sure she would never be caught, feeling every nearby aura, it was almost like having the Marauders' Map, but better.
She arrived to the portrait of Clow Reed two minutes after the time.
"They are so gonna kill me for being late." Hermione murmured to herself as she entered.
She was puzzled when she noticed the room was all dark.
'Something strange is going on.' She thought. 'I know it.'
Suddenly she felt it: Danger.
Immediately she raised both hands and concentrated, her aura flared a bright yellow, enveloping her, forming a shield, so perfect it looked like a second skin.
And a second later she could see five flashes of light hitting her, well, the shield. She had never been attacked with five spells at a time, but she managed to keep her shield up.
And just as the last spell vanished she could feel them, five flaring auras: one blue(Eriol), one purple(Tomoyo), one orange(Sonomi), one pink(Sakura), and one dark green(Shaoran).
"Lumos!" she called, without lowering her hands.
In her hands appeared a sphere of light and she could see her friend's faces.
"Perfectly done Hermy-chan!" Tomoyo congratulated her as she put down her camcorder.
"It's incredible how you use that shield." Eriol added.
"I'm so happy." Sakura said smiling, she raised her hand. "Light!"
The lights turned on.
Slowly Hermione lowered her hands, she wasn't sure if the training would go on.
"You've demonstrated you really deserve the powers you have got." Shaoran said seriously. "At this pace it would be no wonder that for summer you'll have the level of a common sorcerer."
Hermione nodded, proudly. She knew what Shaoran meant. A normal sorcerer where like his sisters, or Mrs. Sonomi, Mrs. Nadeshiko, or almost any sorcerer left around the world. They were different. Eriol as the reincarnation of Clow Reed, Tomoyo as an Enchantress, Shaoran as the Master of the Elements, and Sakura as the Mistress of the Cards; they where considered Supreme Sorcerers, they were in the highest level a Sorcerer could be.
(N.A.: With Enchantress I mean that besides the ability of copying someone else's powers, her biggest gift is her voice. With it she can cast special enchantments, or hypnotize almost anyone –if you have seen the Charmed Ones just think in the kind of spells they do.)
"And how's is everything going?" Hermione asked sitting down. "Are you still gonna train Harry?"
"Harry-kun must be trained as soon and as fast as possible." Tomoyo said. "But it still is not moment for him to know who we are, or you."
"Then how do you pretend to do it?" Hermione asked.
"In dreams." Sakura said, she made a movement and a Sakura Card floated from her pack to Hermione's hands. "That Card will help us enter Harry's dreams, and there we'll train him, his mind, without him knowing it's us."
"Can I go with you?" Hermione asked
"I don't know if it is a good idea." Eriol said. "Hermione-san, after all you are starting to get use to this three times a week, and we'll train Harry twice a week, that would leave you too little time to rest and recover."
"Perhaps we could begin to train Harry, and once you've gotten used to the training you can come with us." Shaoran suggested.
Hermione nodded, it was a fair arrangement.
.
They trained for about an hour in the Coliseum, until they were too tired to continue(at least Hermione was). Sakura returned everything to normal and they got everything ready to leave.
"Wait." Sakura said suddenly. "I've just remembered something."
"What?" Shaoran asked.
"This." Sakura said taking a white envelope from her pocket.
"That's a wedding invitation." Tomoyo said taking a quick look at it.
"Exactly." Sakura said. "I received it this morning. My oni-chan(brother) is getting married in three weeks."
"Three weeks!" Tomoyo exclaimed surprised.
(N.A.: It has been a month since Valentine's Day, so they're in mid-March).
"With whom?" Sonomi asked.
"Kaho-san." Sakura answered.
"It was obvious." Eriol murmured.
"Why do you say that?" Shaoran asked.
"Easy my cute-little-descendant, I highly doubt Kinomoto-san would marry Nakuru-san, and Kaho-san was the next option." Eriol said smiling.
Shaoran was about to reply something when Tomoyo spoke.
"So we are going back to Japan for the weeding."
Sakura nodded.
"Then it is sure my family will be going too." Shaoran said, he didn't seem to like the idea at all.
(N.A.: And if we think about his four sisters, he has a reason not to like the idea.)
"Why do you think that Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked.
"They must know by now that you and me are together again." Shaoran explained. "And they would want to make sure I continue training and don't get distracted."
Sakura raised her eyebrow, too surprised someone would believe Shaoran would leave his training.
"Besides." Shaoran continued. "My mother likes you, since that day you stayed in our house."
"Well, I think she's a very beautiful and powerful lady." Sakura said, she too had liked the woman in that trip Tomoyo, Touya, Kero, Yukito and herself did to Hong-Kong, six years ago.
"So it's set, we'll be leaving for Japan in two weeks, when the Easter vacations start." Tomoyo said.
"Yes." Sakura said. "And Hermy-chan is coming with us."
"What?!" Hermione exclaimed, truly surprised.
All along the conversation she had felt left out, and now they were saying she was going with them!
"Yeah." Sakura said. "We want you to come too, and Harry too if he wishes to come."
"Sure." Hermione said immediately.
"Although first you must write to your parents." Eriol said thoughtfully.
"I'll write my parents tomorrow morning." Hermione said happily.
"Well, now we should better go take a rest." Eriol said.
The rest of them just nodded and left the Sorcerers' Room in silence.
Not as long as the last one, but I think it's good enough. I know I'm still missing Sonomi's business, but that will come later(Probably in the next chapter).
The next couple of chapters will be about the trip to Japan, the wedding, and probably another fight, but this time Hermione will participate in it using her new talents. I hope you like what I'm doing with the characters.
I have a lot of ideas to put in this fic. And one of them is making a sequel, I don't know yet what the title will be, nor if I will do it, I need your opinion: If you want me to make the sequel, or if you prefer that I resolve all the problems in this fic and leave it there. It'll be your decision. About this fic, I think I'll be able to finish it in about ten chapters, or a little more. Tell me what you think.
Also I say that last Sunday, August 1st, 2004 I celebrated one year of being in and besides, today, one year ago, I started this fic, this fic is celebrating the first year of life and work, 25 chapters(besides the prologue), and I hope there will be more. I'm very happy and satisfied of what I've done in this time. To celebrate also I've published the end of the fic: "Entre el Pasado y el Futuro...(Between the Past and the Futuro...)" it's a HP fic, written in Spanish. And I'm beginning with two new fics: The first one in Spanish, is of MKR, called "Los Tres Sellos(The Three Seals)"; and the second one is in English, of Mulan, called "Rescue".
I really want to thank you because all I've done up to now has been because of you, because your reviews and opinions motivate me to continue. Domo Arigato Gozaimazu(Thank you very much).
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Adieu.