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 33.- We have hope.
They hadn't even had any time to celebrate for Voldemort's death. Because it hadn't come without sacrifices.
"Iie! This can't be." Tomoyo cried out. "I refuse to accept this!"
Eriol was holding her tightly.
Sonomi too was about to collapse but Severus took hold of her.
"This can't be happening Severus, it just can't." Sonomi cried. "I've already lost too much people I love because of the magic, I can't lose one more."
Shaoran knelt down next to her body and hugged it, as if trying to bring her back.
"Sakura-chan, My beloved Ying Fa." Shaoran murmured. "Onegai, come back." He tightened his embraced. "Onegai. I can't live without you, come back to me."
Hermione was holding to Harry, trying hard not to go into hysterics, although it was too hard.
Nobody could accept this loss.
In Japan, in Seiju High.
"Miss Yanagisawa continue please." The teacher said.
But Naoko didn't answer.
"Miss Yanagisawa!" the teacher yelled at her.
"Nani!" Naoko called out.
"Are you sick?" the teacher asked looking at the teen firmly. "You don't look so well. Better go to the infirmary."
"Yes sensei(teacher)." Naoko accepted and left.
Rika and Chiharu just looked at their friend worriedly.
She wasn't feeling bad, she was just too distracted.
'Something's wrong, I know it.' She thought. 'Oh Kami, please let Sakura be alright.'
-
In the Tsukimine Shrine Touya was hysteric.
"Calm down Touya-kun." Kaho said.
"No. Something's wrong, I know it." Touya said. "Something's happened to Sakura."
"You don't know that." Kaho said.
"Don't tell me you don't feel it 'cause I'm sure you do." Touya retorted.
Then he noticed his mistake and lowered his head.
"Gomen ne(I'm sorry) Kaho-san. I'm just too worried." Touya explained.
"I know, no need to excuse yourself." Kaho said. "But she's your sister, trust her. She'll be alright."
Touya nodded.
-
And in the Kinomoto house.
Kero was panting, breathing heavily; and Yukito could barely stay awake.
"Something's wrong." Fujitaka said when he noticed them that way.
"Yue says something must be wrong with Sakura-chan because he feels too tired he can't even come out." Yukito explained panting. "Something must have happened to her.
"Sakura-chan…" Kero murmured almost unconscious.
"Don't worry." Fujitaka said trying to help them. "I'm sure Sakura will be alright." He turned to the sky. "Please Nadeshiko, koibito(beloved), help her."
In Hogwarts Grounds they were still crying, not knowing what else to do.
"She knew this would happen." Tomoyo said suddenly.
"What?" Hermione and Harry asked in unison.
"Nani?" Shaoran asked raising his head from Sakura's body.
"What do you mean hime(princess)?" Eriol asked.
"Last week, when she told us about her dream, about how she had seen one of us dying." Tomoyo explained.
"She said she didn't know who of us it may be." Harry finished.
"She was lying." Tomoyo said.
"What…Why?" Eriol asked.
"She knew exactly who would die." Tomoyo explained. "I noticed it in her eyes, she knew it then and didn't tell us."
"But why!" Shaoran cried out.
And then Hermione understood.
"Because of you." She said.
"Explain yourself Hermione-san." Shaoran ordered.
"She knew you would have done anything to save her from death, even endangering yourself." Hermione explained.
"Of course I would have helped her. I love her." Shaoran declared.
And then he too noticed.
"If she said she didn't know then you wouldn't be in danger." Harry said understanding too.
"But why did she have to die, it's not fair." Shaoran said still crying.
"If she wasn't injured why did she die?" Ginny asked suddenly.
"We aren't like you Miss Weasley." Sonomi explained. "We are sorcerers."
"Sorcerers!" Most of them exclaimed.
"Yes." Eriol said. "Sakura used a very powerful Incantation, the magic all of us got together wasn't enough to finish it so she used her life-energy. And because of that he now has no energy to live."
They were shocked. They never imagined something like that could be possible.
And also that confirmed Tomoyo's theory. Sakura had known she would die in that battle, that was why she hadn't doubted to use her life-energy to boost the spell, she had already known before how all this would end.
"Look, the Card with the image of the silly girl is gray." Luna suddenly commented.
Shaoran looked.
It was true, next to Sakura laid the Hope Card, gray and cold, almost like her Mistress.
"Ying Fa." Shaoran murmured raising the Card to his heart. "I need you here with me, Onegai."
Suddenly there was a small glow.
"What was that?" Hermione asked, being the first to notice it.
Shaoran looked again at the Card. It was slightly different. One edge of it was back to its pink color.
"That's it!" Eriol exclaimed suddenly smiling openly.
The rest looked at him as if he was mad, how could he smile in such a situation!
"Sakura isn't dead!" Eriol yelled.
"What!" Almost everyone yelled too.
"The Hope Card." Eriol exclaimed. "It is like that because it consumed all energy that was there. What Sakura needs is energy."
"What kind of energy?" Ron asked as he looked at everyone else, already tired out.
"It's the Hope Card." Tomoyo said understanding Eriol's plan. "You need to have hope."
"I have hope. Ying Fa, come back." Shaoran said seriously.
Again, the card glowed.
"I too have hope, Sakura-chan will return." Tomoyo assured.
"I have hope." Eriol said.
"We too have hope." Harry and Hermione said at once.
"I have hope." Ron added.
"Us too." Ginny and Colin chirped.
And then, slowly, everyone else too said the same.
In Japan.
Naoko was on the infirmary, waiting for the nurse to check her when she felt a tug at her magic, someone was calling her, someone needed her.
"Hai." She said to nobody in particular. "I too have hope."
-
In the Tsukimine Shrine both Touya and Kaho could feel it.
"You know what this is?" Touya asked.
"They're calling us." Kaho answered. "They want us to believe…to have hope."
"We do." Touya said.
"We both have hope." They both stated.
-
In the Kinomoto house Yukito and Kero were unconscious, but still Fujitaka could hear their voices.
"I have hope." Yukito was murmuring.
"I have hope, Sakura-chan." Kero said.
"Sakura-chan." Fujitaka said. "I too believe, I too have hope."
Back in Hogwarts Grounds.
The Card began floating and glowing. It was as when Sakura turned the Clow Cards to Sakura Cards. The Color changing slowly, as the aura in it.
"We believe. We have hope." Everyone there chanted over and over again.
Shaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Harry and Hermione didn't took their eyes off the Hope Card.
Suddenly there was one flash of light as the Card floated to the ground, after being turned back to its original pink.
"Ah…"
A gasp was heard.
Everyone turned to where what was a dead, cold, pale body a second ago was now a panting young lady.
And again Shaoran cried, but this time for happiness. As he hugged tightly his beloved.
"My beloved Ying Fa." Shaoran said.
"Xiao Lang…" Sakura murmured embracing him too. "Aishiteru…(I love you)"
"Watashi mo mata Aishiteru(I love you too)" Shaoran replied kissing her passionately.
Hermione and Tomoyo too began crying again, they almost couldn't believe it.
"Arigato(Thank you) kami-sama." Sonomi said eyeing the sky.
"This is a miracle." Ron murmured wide-eyed.
It was obvious they were all very happy for what had happened, although they still couldn't believe, or even fully understand what had happened.
"It's finished!" Luna suddenly yelled.
"We won!" Others too yelled.
"We did it!" The cries of victory went on.
Dumbledore smiled as he saw the happy and satisfied students.
"For the Lord's sake, what happened here?" a voice asked.
"Ah Cornelius Fudge, I'm sure you would find it quite interesting." Dumbledore said eyeing the Minister.
"You would never guess what just happened." Colin said happily.
"Surely I would not." Fudge said as he looked around carefully.
Mr. Duke and Prof. Flitwick had talked him about an invasion of the Dark Lord and his Death Eater but all he could see here were a bunch of hyper teenagers who seemed to be very happy about something, this was definitely not his idea of 'a terrible emergency' as Prof. Flitwick had described it to him just less than an hour ago in the Ministry.
All of a sudden Tomoyo took a Card from Sakura's pocket.
"Time!" she summoned.
Suddenly, everything stopped. Everything except the Sorcerers.
"Why did you do that Tomoyo?" Hermione asked.
"What did you do would be more precise." Harry corrected.
"I stopped time, with the help of one of the Sakura Cards." Tomoyo explained. "And about the first question, I don't think it is yet time for the Ministry of Magic to know about us. That man will surely be shocked when he discovers that Sorcerers still exist, and I don't think it is the time, not yet."
The rest just nodded, they agreed.
"And what can we do?" Shaoran asked.
"I've still got some magic." Tomoyo said. "I can seal their memories so they don't remember this."
"Why don't you erase them?" Harry asked.
"It's dangerous to erase memories, you might end erasing more than necessary, or not erasing what you wanted to." Eriol explained.
"I'll just blocked those memories and, sometime in the future they'll be able to remember." Tomoyo explained.
Everyone agreed.
"Memories of this night,
I call to you now,
Go now, go to sleep,
Don't let this humans know
What has been done.
But in the future perhaps,
It might all come back." Tomoyo sang.
And just when that Enchantment came true the time-stop ended.
"Then tell me, what happened?" Fudge asked.
For about half 'a second the students looked confused, when one of them reacted.
"We just defeated Lord Voldemort!" One of them yelled.
Fudge flinched at the name but was surprised to notice he was the only one.
"Really?" he asked. "Explain me what happened."
The members of the D.A. began talking about the battle against the army of Death Eaters, how they had been trained by Harry, how Hermione freed them from the Great Hall. Then they said they had helped Sakura and Shaoran with a special Advanced Spell that finally vanquished Voldemort.
"Is all this true?" Fudge asked.
"Do you doubt it?" Sonomi asked in return.
"It all sound too fantastic." Fudge said. And just then he noticed her. "Who are you?"
"Sonomi, Sonomi Ama…Black." She said.
As Voldemort was gone she feared no more to reveal her true identity.
"What this students have told you is true Cornelius." Dumbledore said. "They fought Voldemort and he is finally dead, for good this time I believe."
Fudge nodded.
Just then Dumbledore eyed the Sorcerers for a second, and they knew, he hadn't forgotten.
"You know what this means Harry?" Hermione suddenly asked.
"No, what?" Harry asked.
"You're free. You're in danger no more!" Hermione cried out happily. "No more will you be hunted or attacked."
"That's true!" Harry exclaimed happily.
Then he took Hermione by the way and swept her off the ground, twirling around, laughing.
"Harry!" Hermione said, she too laughing. "Harry put me down. Please. You're making me dizzy."
Still laughing Harry let her down, only to embrace her tightly.
"I'm the happiest man alive Hermy." Harry assured.
"And why is that?" Hermione asked with a smile.
"I'm free, no more in danger, I've avenged my parent's death, I have wonderful friends around me and…you. I love you Hermione Jane Granger." Harry said seriously.
"And I you Harry James Potter." Hermione said with fake seriousness.
Then Harry pulled her to him and kissed her fully on the lips, not caring who saw them.
Silently Eriol pulled Tomoyo behind a tree.
"So everything did ended alright." Eriol said.
"Hai, it did." Tomoyo replied.
"They won't remember that kiss we way before them." Eriol suddenly said.
"No, they won't." Tomoyo said. "And even if they did, I wouldn't care if I had to leave this school or any other place, as long as I'm with you everything will be perfect."
"That's why I love you my Tomoyo-hime." Eriol said surrounding her waist with his arms.
"And I love you too my Eriol-ouji." Tomoyo added surrounding his neck with her thin arms.
And they both kissed passionately.
Sakura was giving the back to Hogwarts as she holded the Hope Card.
Domo arigato (Thank you very much) Hope. Sakura said telepathically.
Always a pleasure to serve you, my mistress, my friend. Hope replied in a singsong voice.
Sakura smiled and put away the Card.
Then she felt a strong pair of arms surrounding her by the back.
"Xiao Lang…" Sakura murmured holding his hands.
"My beloved Cherry Blossom." Shaoran murmured.
Sakura could notice the apprehension in his voice.
"Doushitano(Is something wrong) Little Wolf?" Sakura asked worriedly.
"I was afraid, so afraid." Shaoran suddenly admitted.
"Doushite(Why)?" Sakura asked turning around to face him.
"Because I thought you were gone." Shaoran replied. I don't want to lose you Sakura-chan."
"And you will never lose me, I promise you that." Sakura said smiling at him.
There was no need for more words.
They kissed tenderly.
They had endured great dangers and tolerated arduous test. They had survived everything. Now it was their time to be together, their time to love.
I didn't intend to make you mad at me by suggesting that Sakura was dead. I hope by now you understand she never was, she was just out of energies. Anyway, this was my way also to explain how I think Lily Potter could protect Harry just before she died. Hope it was all understood.
Next update (in two weeks more or less) will be the epilogue, and hopefully an advance of what's going to happen in the sequel.
Until then...