Chapter 5: Going Back

"What happens when the dream becomes reality and reality is so far away that it seems like a dream?"

"How come you trust so much a stranger? For what you know I could throw you right out of the spaceship if I wanted to"

"You're not a stranger, I know you already, I've dreamed of you before" –she smiled as she said this. Despite all his knowledge, Eriol didn't understand her answer. Just as the confused boy was about to ask her a beautiful wave of colours surrounded the Firearm making the girl release his arm and get all exited about what was outside. They had arrived to the TR, their base.

The Lancelot had arrived in perfect conditions, but it was not the case for the Firearm, one of the engines was severely damaged and the right side of the panel wasn't working very well. Obviously the explosion had caused some troubles on it.

Just as Syaoran stepped out of his ship Kei and Ayaka began to repair it. They're the team's mechanics as Hyosuke explained. Sakura was holding to her best friend not wanting to let her go and of course telling her off not to do anything as irresponsible as that ever again. Meiling looked at them impatiently, she still wanted to know what happened with the crystal pieces and how come Kaeli had one. Syaoran, Hyosuke and Meiling led them to a living room where Eriol was already waiting for them. The questions began.

"How did you get to that place?" –the leader asked.

"I've told you before" –Kaeli showed her watch once again and put it down on a table –"I found it in my room one night I had a dream of that place, and just tried to experiment with it and landed somewhere by accident, then did it again and again and again and then did the same but backwards to get back home, and then I'd tried some new combinations other nights to see where would it take me until I got to that place, this is the first time someone has come with me"

"And it will be the last one" –a severe voice stated. Sakura almost felt relieved, she still though she had gone nuts a while ago, but Kaeli's eyes widened at that, she turned her head to the boy leaning against a wall with folded arms and eyes closed.

"What are you saying?" –the amethyst eyed girl asked with disbelief.

"What you heard, travelling is not for kids! It's dangerous and you could get hurt or even killed! It is not a game, take them back Syaoran" –was the last thing Eriol said before turning around and walking out of the room, slamming a door seconds later, not without taking Kaeli's watch with him.

Kaeli stood up with anger in her blood, how dare he forbid her something! She took Sakura's arm and started walk out of the room stomping her feet at every step and once out of the building she turned back and yelled at a window –"I'm not a kid! You can't tell me what to do and what not to do and I don't need any of you to travel! I'll do it on my own weather you like it or not!"

The emerald eyed girl was in shock, she didn't know that explosive part of her friend. Syaoran just did as told, he took them to a spaceship, small compared to the Lancelot or the Firearm. The next thing Kaeli knew she was laying on her bed with tears falling from her eyes. Sakura was asleep, once again she didn't notice her friend crying.

The next morning, Kaeli felt so let down that she skipped breakfast, she was laying on a couch in fetal position in a state between awake and asleep. She was still mad, but most of all confused, Sakura didn't seem to remember anything... Her pretty eyes didn't even open when Miss Aikawa asked if she wanted to go to the park with them, she only replied that she had a stomach ache. Sakura, worried after her friend, decided to stay with her.

Was it really a dream? But it felt so real, and the pain she felt inside her was real too. But she had nothing to prove it. There was no pocket watch and there was no crystal moon. Dream or not, right now she hated that blue eyed boy. She had dreamed of him many times before but this was the first time they were both in the dream, if it was a dream...

A dream... it's all it was... thinking about how unreal all was she got to the conclusion that those dreams and the way they involved her in the story were only her way to feel she belonged somewhere. Not having parents is difficult, but the moment she realized that she swore to herself that no one would ever see her pain.

"I shouldn't make anyone unhappy because of my feelings, my pain is mine, and mine to bear alone"

The days went by and her excuses were running out, all the pains known had been used as an excuse. There were two new girls at the orphanage, one of them was seven and the other one was three years old. Kaeli slowly started to act as her usual cheerful self, but inside the pain wasn't gone. Faking it was the key. No one would believe how good of an actress this girl was.

It was one day during a drawing period with her little sisters that she got a surprise. One of the new girls, the seven years old one had made a very particular drawing. There was a boy with blue eyes laying on the floor with something in his hand.

"What's this, Yuni?" –Kaeli asked pointing at the boy's hand.

"That's a pocket watch, but it's not his, he took it from someone" –her grey eyes looked directly at Kaeli's lilac ones –"If you want, I can tell you the rest of his story later" –she added with a smile as she stood up and walked to the kitchen where Miss Aikawa and Shirou, her boyfriend, were serving dinner.

Yuni

-7 years old

-Brown reddish hair, grey eyes

-Enigmatic girl, arrived two days after Kaeli's strange dream, she always has something in mind

"Ok I'll tell you the story now" –Yuni began, they had waited until everyone was sleeping and were now sitting on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate for each one –"He was born in a far land seventeen years ago, his family served the king, his father was a great knight who had fought side to side with the king, and a year later the kings had a baby girl, so they decided to engage them, they were growing together but when the princess turned four, a curse was placed on the king's family, the king was sealed in a dark room in a deep slumber with a crystal door that was shattered to pieces and spread through many worlds, the queen got killed protecting her child, and the princess disappeared. It is said that when all the crystals were retrieved and the puzzle of the door beaten, the king will be free and the princess will be back. When this boy turned ten, he joined the Crystal Hunters, a selected group trained to find the lost pieces, he has spend his whole life improving his skills and gaining knowledge to be able to solve the puzzle, but there's another group, one trained to fight with the Crystal Hunters and not let them gather the pieces, their leader is Enn, son of the diseased wizard who cursed the royal family. The watch he's holding belonged to the king, but it was supposed to be sealed along with him"

Kaeli was speechless, she didn't know what was real and what wasn't anymore, not that she had known for the past week –"The princess's name is Tomoyo Daidouji, it is said she might be trapped along with the king in the dark room. That's why it is so important to the boy to gather all the pieces"

Almost like reflect, Kaeli's pale hand tried to reach her necklace, but in midway she stopped.

"It won't be there. Have faith and you'll go back" –the younger girl yawned as she started to walk towards her room –"Good night" –she finished leaving an astonished Kaeli behind.