The Hope Spell.
Authoress: 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 29.- Ethereal Power."Harry! Behind you!" Hermione yelled as she dodged a blue energy blast.
"Protergo!" Harry exclaimed as he raised both hands.
The two attacks that were headed from him where neutralized.
"I'm too tired Hermy." Harry murmured to his girlfriend.
'He's new in this, he hasn't yet got used to it so it's normal he's tired but...' Hermione was thinking. 'We can't give up.'
"Don't worry Harry." Hermione said preparing herself. "I'm gonna try something."
With that she got in full concentration, she had to be very precise with what she was about to do. Her yellow aura enveloped her and started glowing.
In that moment five full attacks were headed to the couple.
Harry feared there would be nothing he could do, it was just too much when...
"Reflectus!" Hermione yelled opening her arms suddenly and releasing all the energy she had accumulated.
The energy formed some kind of dome around her and Harry, and that energy deflected the attacks.
Gasps could be heard all around the room. Their attackers weren't expecting this, and although they could dodge their attacks easily they were already too shocked to attack again.
"Enough." A voice called.
Their surroundings changed, they were standing in the middle of a room with chairs and sofas. Everyone sat down.
"Hey, that was something new." Eriol noted sitting down.
"Despairing situations demand for despaired measures." Hermione said as she tried to recover her energies.
"We have to admit we weren't expecting something like that." Tomoyo said.
Sakura and Shaoran nodded.
"You're getting better day by day Hermione-san, Harry-san." Sonomi congratulated them.
"Arigato." Hermione said smiling.
After all this time she was beginning to learn a few words in Japanese.
"You have really learned a lot in such a short time Harry." Sonomi insisted, looking at the boy with a smile.
"That you for the compliment godmother." Harry said smiling.
"Oka-san is right, you've improved a lot in just one month." Tomoyo insisted.
"Now we just have one more month of classes to go." Sakura said happily. "Then we'll finally be free!"
"Are you going to return next year?" Hermione asked, fearing the answer would be no.
"Hai." The four replied.
"I will come back teaching." Eriol said.
"Finally the curse of a one-year teacher will be over." Harry said happily.
His girlfriend just nodded.
"We'll come back to study." Tomoyo added, referring to herself and Sakura.
"And you Shaoran?" Harry asked. "I thought you had said the Li's just came one year."
"Hai, but this time they decided to make an exception. My mother convinced the elders hat I need more education in Western Magic; besides, I can't stay away from my beloved Ying Fa." Shaoran said hugging Sakura by her back.
"And I couldn't possibly live without my Xiao Lang." Sakura added embracing him tightly.
"I won't leave you again, ever." Shaoran assured her.
He made her turn around and taking hold of her face with both hands he kissed her tenderly.
Eriol took this as a cue and kissed Tomoyo passionately too.
"We won't stay behind." Harry said as he and Hermione did the same.
Sonomi understood this was a romantic moment and she should better leave the place.
Sonomi was walking by the farthest side of the yard, near the edge of the Forbidden Forest, suddenly she heard some noises, by reflection she took out her wand and raised it.
"Come out! Whomever you are! Show yourself!" Sonomi threatened, wand in hand.
"So...Sonomi..." a voice called.
A man dressed in black robes, with most of them in rags and with blood dripping from many deep wounds stepped out of the Forest.
"Severus!!" Sonomi cried out lowering her wand and running to her beloved's side.
"S-Sonomi..." Severus called, he was very bad injured.
"Oh, Kami-sama..." Sonomi murmured. "Tomoyo! Tomoyo!!"
In the Sorcerers' Room the three couples were enjoying their sweet time when...
"Excuse me, Miss Tomoyo." The portrait of the Voice Card called her.
"Yeah, what is it?" Tomoyo asked.
"Your mother, Mrs. Sonomi is calling you, and she seems to be really distressed." Voice explained.
"What?!" Tomoyo explained. "Where is she?"
She immediately concentrated to find her mother's aura, she found it, and she was calling for her right, but she wasn't alone.
"Oh Kami-sama..." she murmured.
"Nani?" Sakura asked stepping next to her.
"We need to get to the back of the castle, now." Tomoyo said almost as distressed as her mother.
"Okay." Sakura said taking out one of her Cards. "Move, take us where Sonomi-san is."
The Card glowed and the six of them disappeared.
A second later they appeared next to Sonomi and Severus.
"Oh my God..." Hermione murmured looking at their professor.
"This can't be." Harry couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"What happened?" Eriol asked, as concerned as the rest of them.
"It was Lord Voldemort." Sonomi answered. "Watashi(I) have explored his memories. It seems Lord Voldemort found out he didn't exactly tried to kill me that night back in Japan. He's considered a traitor now, they almost killed him."
"He'll be dead any moment now." Shaoran said looking at his wounds.
"This can't happen, not now." Sonomi sobbed. "It took us too long to be back together, anata(you) can't leave me now, you just can't."
Tomoyo was crying too, she didn't like seeing her mother in pain. She needed to do something, and she was going to do something.
"Eriol-kun, hold my mother." Tomoyo said.
It wasn't a question, it was an order.
"What are you gonna do Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura asked, concerned.
"Save my godfather's life." Tomoyo declared.
Tomoyo took out a pendant that looked like a Crystal Blossom.
"I summon the infinite power, to blossom like this Crystal flower. Release!" Tomoyo recited. The Crystal blossom suddenly bloomed, and it became her Crystal staff.
Tomoyo knelt down just next to Severus, and holding the staff firmly just a couple of inches above his body she concentrated hard in the incantation she was about to use.
"I call for the Goddesses of the Sea, you who have the gift of healing; I plea you to help me in this place at this hour. Please, I beg you." Tomoyo recited.
A few crystal drops started to come from Tomoyo's staff, slowly at first, but more by each second, the crystal water covered Professor Snape's wounds and slowly began healing them. It was very difficult. Drops of sweat began appearing in Tomoyo's forehead, this was very difficult for her.
"Why is it taking so long?" Sakura asked. "She didn't take that long with me."
"Your wounds were of acid, this are magic wounds." Shaoran explained. "Some of them were done with dark magic of a very high level. I consider it's a miracle he's still alive."
Tomoyo was panting by now, and the wounds hadn't yet closed.
'I can't give up.' Tomoyo told herself. 'I just can't, I'll save him. I won't let my oka-san suffer another loss. I'll heal him, no matter what it takes.'
"She's wearing herself out." Eriol said.
"Nani?" Sakura asked.
"What do you mean Eriol?" Hermione asked.
"She won't be able to hold up much longer, the wounds are just too difficult to heal, and her energy is draining out too fast." Eriol said. "Unless..."
"Unless what?" Sonomi asked.
"Sonomi-san, stay with Sakura-chan and Shaoran-kun onegai." Eriol said as he let go of her.
He knelt down behind Tomoyo and slowly encircled her. He let his blue aura enveloped her and slowly mix with Tomoyo's aura.
The magic power increased dramatically and Severu's wounds started closing, the color returning to his skin and his breathing regulating.
They were just seconds, but they seemed like an eternity.
Eriol and Tomoyo, both completely drained off fell to the side, in the last moment Eriol managing to fall first so Tomoyo would fall over him and not directly on the ground.
"Tomoyo-chan! Eriol-kun!" everyone called out.
"They're okay, it was just an energy drain." Shaoran said after revising them.
"Severus..." Sonomi murmured looking at him, most of his wounds were healed, but it was obvious he was still too weak.
"Move Card, take us back to the Sorcerers' Room." Sakura ordered.
Again, the Card glowed, and again, they all disappeared.
Once back in the Sorcerers' Room they left Severus on the bed and Tomoyo and Eriol on the coaches.
"Sakura-chan, please go get Albus Dumbledore." Sonomi asked.
Sakura nodded and left the room immediately.
She was running, fast, really concerned about the safety of all her friends. She was so deep in her thoughts she didn't see nor feel a guy until she crashed into him.
"Itai!" She yelled as she fell to the floor.
"Auch..." he murmured.
Sakura, using her well developed abilities jumped back up, turned around and saw the guy with whom she had just crashed.
"Ron-kun?" she asked.
"Sakura." Ron said. "What's going on? Why were you running so fast? Is there something wrong?"
"Too much questions Ron-kun, and I don't have much time. I must do something important." Sakura said, she turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait, do you know where Harry and Hermione are?" he asked.
He received no answer, Sakura had just ran off.
About five minutes later Sakura arrived to the Gargoyle.
"Password." It said.
"I don't have time for this." Sakura murmured.
She concentrated, searching for auras, there were no auras near her; and inside Prof. Dumbledore's office there was just his aura and the one of his phoenix.
"Okay." Sakura said. "Move, let me in."
She disappeared.
Dumbledore was looking through some papers when he noticed a strange pink-silver glow in the middle of the room. The glow grew and turned into the form of a person, a young woman.
"Intruder!" the portraits of the former directors called.
"Miss Kinomoto, you could have used the door." Dumbledore told her calmly.
"I didn't know the password and I had no time to guess." Sakura replied a little harsher than she intended.
"I'm sure Prof. Eriol could have told you the password." Dumbledore replied as calm as usual.
"I'm sure he could have, weren't he unconscious by a serious energy drain.
Dumbledore raised his eyebrow, looking at her seriously.
"If you would come with me I would be more than pleased to explain everything to you." Sakura said.
"Go where?" Dumbledore asked.
"To the Sorecerers' Room, that's were they're waiting." Sakura replied.
'That's in the other side of the castle.' Dumbledore thought. 'She must have come running all the way here. She sure is fast, but how come she doesn't look the slightest bit tired? Although she could have used the same magic she used to get in here.'
"I can imagine what you are thinking." Sakura said. "And no, I didn't use my 'special magic' as you call it to get here, I got here running, I just used the Move Card to get inside. And if you excuse me this is quite urgent."
Dumbledore understood she was being serious.
"Fine." He said. "Let us go there."
"Hai." Sakura said, she laid a hand on the Professor's arm and then added: "Move Card, get us back to the Sorcerers' Room."
And they both disappeared.
Seconds later they were back at the Sorcerers' Room.
"Are you okay Sakura-chan?" Shaoran asked.
"Hai, why?" she asked.
"It's because you've used the Move Card a lot more than you're used to and without your staff. Don't worry, Watashi Daijoubu(I'm fine). How is Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura asked.
"Recovering." Hermione answered. "Seems the energy drain was quite high."
"And Snape-sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Almost fully recovered, although he'll remain asleep until tomorrow at least." Sonomi replied.
"Severus Snape?" Dumbledore asked.
And just then he saw the Potions professor, lying in the bed, unconscious and with signs that obviously showed he had been badly injured.
"What happened here?" Dumbledore asked.
And Sonomi explained him everything. Since the moment she had went to take a walk on the back of Hogwarts Grounds until Sakura had went looking for him.
"This isn't good." Dumbledore murmured.
"Things are getting from bad to worse." Shaoran murmured.
"This was said to happen since years ago." A voice said.
"What do you mean Clow-san?" Sakura asked.
Everyone turned to the portrait of Clow Reed.
"Since Lord Voldemort appeared for the first time it was said he would try once and again to take control over the magic world, although he would know that wouldn't be possible." Clow explained. "At least not until the day when Sorcerers stepped again on Hogwarts. Because when that happened Voldemort would now, and he would then unleash all his forces, known and unknown, he'll do anything to get the Ethereal Power."
"The Ethereal Power." Sakura repeated.
"But that's just a myth!" Dumbledore explained.
"It is not." Shaoran interrupted. "There's the Prophecy. It states that when the five Supreme Sorcerers gather they'll be able to unleash and reign over the greatest magic ever known: the Ethereal Power.
"But that can't happen yet, we're just four." Sakura said. "Remember what Naoko said? Clow Reed, an Enchantress, a Master of Elements and the Mistress of the Cards. Four. We're still missing the fifth."
"Is that good or bad news?" Dumbledore asked.
The more he knew about this Asians the more he grew unsure about their current situation.
"Both." Eriol murmured awakening. "We aren't all together yet, we won't be able o unleash the Ethereal Power, and so Voldemort won't be able to get it. And bad, because we won't able to use it either, to defeat him."
"There must be another way of defeating him." Sonomi said.
"The Prophecy." Harry interfered.
"Nani?" Sakura asked.
"The Prophecy about me and Voldemort." Harry insisted.
Hermione nodded, Harry had told her about that.
"That would be possible had Voldemort not made a pact with Higher Forces already." Clow said.
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.
"He means that Harry-kun will be able to defeat Voldemort's physical form, but we'll need a higher power to defeat the evil magic that lives within him."
"Maybe if we all join powers we'll be able to defeat him." Sakura suggested.
"Maybe." Eriol said. "But it's not sure."
"We've got to do something!" Harry said. "We can't step aside and see how he destroys more families, like he did with mine."
"Harry is right." Hermione said. "We've trained, we're stronger than the last time we fought him. And we have you guys, your presence here should be of some help."
"It will be, I'm sure of that." Shaoran said. "What I'm not sure of is if it will be enough."
"No matter what comes, we'll fight it."
Everyone turned to see Tomoyo, she has just awoken and those were her first words.
"No matter what comes to us we'll fight it...and defeat it." Tomoyo declared.
"We will hime, we will." Eriol assured her.
Sakura, Shaoran, Harry and Hermione just nodded.
Sonomi stayed in silence.
And Dumbledore, also in silence, looked at them, this six teenagers were planning on fighting Voldemort and defeating him. How could they be able to do such things when the best Aurors, wizards and witches couldn't? The answer to that question was a mystery to him, the biggest of all the mysteries he had encountered until then. He just hoped there wouldn't be more deaths to regret.
"Kimi wa Daijoubu dakara(Everything will be alright)." Sakura murmured.
The rest just nodded firmly, and in silence.
And even though she had just said her 'magic words' she couldn't help but having a bad feeling.
Sumimasen(Sorry) for the massive delay(well, it was not as massive as the one I had last year). Anyway, I had final exams, a lot of homework, some projects with my friends and a huge writer's block, all together! I had totally forgotten what was going next in this story. So as you can see it was not easy. But anyway, I'm back, and more than ready to finish this fic, I calculate there are about five chapters missing besides this one.
In other words: I've reached the 200 reviews!! Yai! I'm really happy and proud. And I thank you all, if it weren't for you leaving reviews I wouldn't be were I am. Arigato Gozaimasu.
Well, that's all for now, stay tune for the next chapter.