Snow White

AN: I do not own Card Captor Sakura or Snow White

Chapter 7

I watched as the men lowering the girl's glass coffin into the ground. The clear glass above her face showed that even in death she was still the most beautiful girl I've ever known. I clenched my teeth as I looked at her peaceful sleeping face.

I'm proud to have known her. I am proud to be her cousin. And even if it costs me my own life I will get Juliana for this.

I will make her pay.

Yamazaki dropped some dirt on the coffin and I watched the rain wash it away to reveal her face once more. Her clear blue eyes with that strange purple glow looked up at me. The dirt dropped from my own hand.

Sleeping…

Her eyes were closed.

Only a person who is sleeping can open their eyes.

She's not dead.

"She's not dead!" I jumped into the hole and pulled my knife from my belt. Eager I pried the blade in between the glass and let the piece covering her face pop up. Her eyes blinked slightly as the rain beat down on her pretty face. "Eriol…"

The man jumped into the hole with me. We pushed the lid off and I pulled the girl up into my arms. Her body was limp and I shook her vigorously. "Wake up! Wake up!" She didn't respond and I shook her harder. "Wake up you cow!"

She coughed.

She coughed!

"Oh, my gosh!" I hugged the girl and her arms wrapped themselves around my body weakly. She coughed again and I heard a piece of glass fall against a rock and shatter. The apple piece stuck in her was out and destroyed.

Eriol pulled the girl out of the hole and I found myself being pulled out by the captain. I looked at the girl smiling. The colour was slowly returning to her lips and cheeks. Her slender hand was slightly pressed to her throat and she took long, sharp breaths. Her eyes lifted from the ground and she glared at me.

"I nearly died and you call me a cow!" I cried when her normally soft voice shouted loudly at me as it had done so many times before. I cried, I couldn't stop the tears. She was back! She was back! "Sakura, do not cry."

I whipped the tears with the back of my dirt stained sleeve. "I'm sorry." More tears burned my skin as they ran down my cheeks. "I'm sorry, I should have been there for you. This is all my fault."

"No!" I blinked at the two load voices.

"Sakura, this is not your fault. You have always been there for me; you have always protected me no matter what. I cannot expect you to always be there when something goes wrong. Sooner or later I have to grow up. You have to grow up." I let my gaze drift from the dirt to her blue eyes. She leaned closer to me and a small smile played on her lips as she whispered to me. "I have seen you in my dreams. The ocean is calling you, it has been longing for you as long as you have longed for it. And so has he."

"What's going to happen now, love?" I whipped the last of my tears from my face and filled my body with courage as best as I could. I looked at Tomoyo and together we turned the way we came from. The way to wards the house… home, or at least what that is what it used to be. "You can't be serious."

"My father is there and I am not going to leave him."

"Where she goes I go." Without thinking about it any further we both took our first step to the house. I could feel her determination to save her father give me strength and I vowed right there and then that I would do anything in my power to help her save her father. I lost mine because I was unable to do anything; I am not going to allow the girl to loose hers. Even if it kills me I will help her save her father.

"She did this on purpose." My eyes drifted from Lady Daidouji's broken grave guardian to the windows up in the house. Her brown eyes were emotionless when they met with mine and I felt my hands clench into tight fists. "Sakura!" Without thinking I ran to the house and threw the door open.

Everything was dark inside and only a few candles smirked at me as they cast menacing shadows on the dark walls. My feet carried me in long fast strides up the stairs, up to where her room is. I have always known that there was something wrong with it… something wrong with her. She's not normal and she proved it. She's a witch of the worst kind and she ruined this family.

"Sakura!" I twist around at the loud voice and wildly swung an ornamental pole at the person. "WOW! Hold it love! You're going to take someone's head off with that." I glared at the grinning pirate. His laughter faltered into a silent smile as he brushed a stray strand of my hair behind my ear. "Come one love, let's get this over with."

I nodded in understanding. Her door creaked loudly as I pushed it open and I paused when the reality of her room finally sunk in. It was filled with mirrors, large and small. Disgusted I looked at my reflection. My hair was a mess, my skin pale, my clothes dirty and my eyes wild with rage and longing. I looked the exact way I looked my first few months when I first came to live here.

"My, my, my… The little girl is all grown up, to bad your eyes are still the same." The menacing voice echoed through the room. "You are still the same old throw away now like you was then."

"Shut it you!"

"Violent as ever I see. Well I suppose that's to be expected from a water rat." My eyes scanned the room, trying to find the witch. "Oh and she found herself a little boy water rat, how sweet." Silence filled the room. The door slammed shut behind me and I turned to find Li gone. His fist pounded loudly on the door from the other side and I could hear him frantically calling my name.

"Syaoran!" I tried to open the door and paused when the cold tip of a blade touched my neck. Slowly she let her fingers trace the lines of my face down to my neck.

"You are in the way water rat, as always." I swallowed hard as her warm breath continued to burn my skin. "You are worthless blood. Life was wasted on you where it was not granted for my son."

"I had nothing to do with your baby. He was still born." I gritted my teeth when the blade slowly slid up my skin, drawing blood as it went. I closed my eyes. My promise, I have to remember my promise to Snow White and to Li. Swallowing hard I gathered all my strength and ran with my shoulder into the witch.

She screamed and shrieked as she tired to stop me. Ignoring her starching I slammed her body into the mirrors. Glass shattered loudly as she fell to the floor. "YOU!" I turned at the strange voice behind me, ready to face anyone who is to come my way. "Juliana! Get up Juliana!" I frowned at the image of Juliana urging the real one on from behind the glass.

"I've had enough of you, you little rat!" I screamed when glass tore my skin. Her finger's bled as she held onto the glass she forced down the length of my upper arm and a malicious glint glowed in her eyes. My eyes grew large when she jumped at me with the piece of broken mirror once more.

My heart was beating rapidly in my chest as I ducked each of her forceful attempts to draw my blood. I cursed the magic mirror urging the real Juliana on, always screaming in delight when more of my blood fell to the cold stone floor. I grit my teeth when my back slammed into the large magic mirror and it grabbed me. Slowly it forced its glass nails into my skin as the real witch approached laughing at my agony.

"Today you die princess!" Gathering the last of my strength I ripped myself free from the mirror's grasp as Juliana plunged the glass into her reflection's heart. I watched in horror as the mirror bled along with the real witch. "Oh no! I'm ugly." I felt sick watching her. Slowly her beauty slipped away and she kept clawing at her own face, trying to preserve what cannot be saved.

Her nails tore through her own flesh and screams of agony and despair ripped through my soul. Feeling sick I tried to flee the room, but the screams followed me and soon smoke filled my senses. Turning around I found her room engulfed in flames and she was dancing in the midst of the madness laughing.

"Syaoran!" I screamed as I pounded the door with all my might. "Syaoran!"

"You are going to burn little rat! You are going to burn!" Panic gripped my heart as Juliana approached me.

"Syaoran! Open the door please! Open the door!" I pressed my back against the wooden frame and watched in horror as the woman kept nearing me. My world turned upside down for a moment and I found myself in the hallway looking up at the ceiling.

"Let's get moving love." He lifted me in one swift movement and I clung to him as he rushed down the stairs with me in his arms. The house was engulfed in flames and slowly falling apart as the heat ate all that once was part of home to me. And in the distance I could hear her screaming my name, cursing me and damning me to hell with her.

AN: I'm back, and about time I hear you say. Sorry about the long wait, but I was so busy at varsity that I could hardly breathe and I got sick. Just my luck to get sick with one of the biggest projects of my life due. Luckily that is in and I did really well in the first half as well. (I'm trying to get a distinction for my main subject.)

This is one of the last chapters as you can see. Sakura kicked Juliana and now you will find out what her promise to Syaoran is. What could those two possibly have promised each other ten years ago? For me to know and you to find out in the next and final chapter of dun-dun-dun… SNOW WHITE!

Thanks for the reviews and patience

Tella

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