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Chapter 13

Regarding the feelings racing trough her mind, she would have expected darkness when she opened her eyes. She had stopped screaming a long time ago, not having any more willpower to continue, but she wanted to continue when she saw her surroundings.

Just a moment ago, she thought she was floating. Scared to open her eyes, she thought it was the same as in her dreams, that all existed in darkness. But now she realized she lay on a cold, smooth floor, so white that it nearly blinded her.

Why is it white?

She tried to get up, and succeeded slowly. Looking around her, she saw nothing else but an empty whiteness.

It's the not the right color…

None of her friends where around, and she wanted to scream again, she wanted to call them, but she couldn't bring herself to do so. Instead she felt the tears sliding down her face. She had never felt so alone before, so out of place.

Where am I?

She remembered walking with her friends on the festival grounds. They were about to get something to eat, when she had felt the pain of a thousand knives, stabbing her heart. She remembered she screamed, the pain was to much to bear, and at that moment, she had been willing to give up her live. She screamed a long time after the pain had stopped, until her voice was gone and her throat was sore. But besides the pain, still fresh in her mind, she had no idea what happened. Not to her, not to her friends.

Where are they?

She wondered if they were alright, if they had felt the same as she did. Maybe they were bowing over her fallen body, thinking she had past out or something. Or maybe I'm dead. The thought came without emotions, but she didn't felt like that. Sakura was one of those persons that needed friends. She had always been cheerful, but all thanks to her friends. Without them around, she felt helpless. Alone. Empty. Abandoned. Sad. All worse then in her scariest nightmares.

Syaoran…

A lot of feelings tried to get to her attention, so much that she could hardly keep up. It was overwhelming her. The whiteness didn't help at all. She could see as far as the end of the world, but there was nothing there. It was all empty, everything was gone. She began to run.

Help me…

Kero didn't scream. At the moment her realized something went wrong, he escaped from his hiding place in Sakura's back. He wanted to shield them all for whatever was coming, but he was to late. At the moment the shield activated, he already heard Sakura scream, along with the rest, and then they disappeared. Vanished.

The shield had only worked for himself, for there wasn't anyone with him. But despites the shield, he could still feel something of the pain that attacked him, and he felt sick. He succeeded not to scream, merely because if he felted this, Sakura had to feel it a hundred times worse. He could not think of his pain, knowing his mistress had it a lot worse. Not to mention the rest of her friends.

The strange place he found himself in, was confusing him. It was white, as far as he could see. It really disturbed him, and he wanted to know what it meant. But it was quiet, there was nothing, not even the wind, so he didn't know what it meant.

He felt himself being watched, and he looked around, but there was still just nothing. Who, or whatever had put him in here, it wasn't for good. The aura he felt, felt bad, evil. He figured that staying here wouldn't solve anything, so he flew away.

First, he tried to get up, for maybe he would see someone else from the higher spot. But it didn't go the way he thought. He flew up, higher and higher, but nothing changed, it still looked exactly the same, but now, he just didn't know anymore where the floor was. There wasn't any difference between the floor and the air, so he kind of lost it there.

He slowly tried to go down, to not collie with the floor, but realized that the floor was already under his feet's, as if he had never gone up.

Suddenly, he was scared. Whatever this place was, it scared him like hell. The emptiness, the loss of feelings. He couldn't even feel Sakura anymore, which he normally could do within a certain reach. The idea of not knowing if she was alright, if her friends were alright. It scared him, as he had never done before.

He started to run, not in any specific direction, just running of to somewhere. But then, he suddenly did fell something, although it wasn't clear, like someone tried to hide it.

A card…

His heart ached, even when the pain had ceased. Whatever had happened, it hurt like hell, and he didn't want that to happen to Sakura.

Nor any other friends…

Syaoran was worried about her, even more then his other friends, and at this point he gave in to himself. He really cared about her, no secret anymore. He screamed her name, but no one answered and there was nothing to see.

Besides his worries, the emptiness hurt him as well. It reminded him of his past, that never knew much love. He had only found happy feelings in the beginning of his youth, but those had soon disappeared. The last months in Tomoeda had changed everything. He had finally found friends, that even cared for him and showed that. He found someone he was now willing to give his love to.

But none of the reasons for his happiness was here. It was empty, white… and he hated it. He tried to focus, to sense something, a signal or something like that. It took a while, but then he felt something he had felt before. One time, in the last few months.

A Clowcard…!

This made him remember Sakura, dancing in the flowers, after she had captured her first – and only – Clowcard. He smiled a bit, but it hardly tempered his rage, building up in him fast.

Whoever did this…She better be okay!

He start running in the direction he felt the card coming from. He pulled his sword-amulet from under his shirt, so that if he needed it, it would be in reach.

Tomoyo ran. She was already tired, but kept going nonetheless. She was scared to death, and it was written in her eyes. But she wasn't glad no one saw it, in stead, she wished someone was here, anyone.

Like her friends could, she couldn't sense the Clowcard. She just ran to get away from this creepy place. She just wanted to find someone.

Suddenly, a voice was heard. Or rather, somewhere in her mind. Tomoyo wasn't sure if she heard it, or felt it, but the words were clear.

'Are you ready to give up? Ready to cry? To beg?'

She froze at the words. I don't want to! But I'm scared…

'Who is there?' she asked bravely, her voice trembling from fear.

'Don't worry, I'll save your live, if you just beg for it. Cry for it.'

'Stop it!' Tomoyo screamed, putting her hands on her head, pulling her hair as if wanting to get the voice out of it.

'If you promise, I'll take you somewhere else, more…colorful.'

'Get out of my head! Leave me alone!' She screamed again, but it didn't help. The voice tormented her. Not only the words, but also the way he spoke. It gave her the feeling as if parts of her skin were slowly pulled of. Deed down, she know that she would give in sooner or later, but she had now idea what would happen if she did.

Eriol-kun…help me!

'Eriol-kun, help me!'

He heard it, loud and clearly. Sitting in the whiteness, he concentrated to figure out where he was, where the pain had come from, who had done this to him – and apparently to Tomoyo, for he had just heard her – and how to solve this problem. He had felt the Clowcard a while ago, and though the aura did came from a specific direction, he realized he was inside the card, so there was no need to follow it.

The card that surrounded him, was powerful, for he couldn't break free so easily. But he tried again, not to break free this time, but to find Tomoyo. The girl he hadn't met so long ago, had won a place in his heart. Pretty easy, to. Neither of them had tried, they had just become friends so soon, and he grew fond of her in a really short time. And hearing her desperate call, all he wanted was just to be there for her, make sure she was okay.

Why did I hear her…?

He didn't know, and he didn't care, for he had found to opening to wherever she was. He allowed himself a smile, the way to her place was quite simple. He concentrated a bit more, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Tomoyo a few steps away. She stood with her back at him, and turned hysterically. Her eyes stood crazy, but when she saw him finally, relief filled them and she run towards him.

He could have expected it, but was shocked nonetheless, when Tomoyo run straight in his arms. She hold on to him for live, and he put his arms around her, trying to comfort her.

'It's okay, Tomoyo, it's okay. I'm here, nothing is going to happen to you, I promise.'

Sakura ran, and ran… She had felt the presence of the card as well, but was to scared to pay any attention to it. She just wanted to have someone around, and she had to admit, she especially wanted Syaoran. Tears still streamed down her face. Her eyes widened when she saw a small flash, and then Syaoran running up to her.

'Syaoran…!' She screamed and cried harder from relief.

Finally…you've come…

He wasn't far away, but she kept running, right in to his arms that encircled her small figure. She felt much saver, the moment he held her.

'Sakura! Are you okay? What happened to you? Sakura?' He sounded quite desperate, and for some reason it made her feel good.

He cares about me…

Sakura tried to smile and looked up at his face. 'I'm okay now, Syaoran-kun. I just got really scared. It was so quiet and empty. And the pain when I got here…' She hugged him again, trying to forget the pain of the thousand knives. 'But you're here now.'

He sighed and hold her a bit tighter. 'It's okay now, I'm here for you.'

The feeling of Sakura in his arms made him feel really good. He was so relieved that she was okay now, that nothing, worse then the pain from the beginning had happened. He held for while close to him, and released her a bit.

'We have to go to the others. I don't know how, but I've found you, so I suppose we can find the others to.'

Sakura tilted her head to look him in the eyes. The tears were still there, and Syaoran swept them away with his sleeve. 'You're ready for it, Sakura?'

She nodded. 'Hai, let's go.' They let go of each other and started to walk, in de direction of the presence of the Clowcard. They didn't talk for a moment, having no idea what to say. But Sakura wanted to know something.

'Syaoran-kun?'

'Hai?'

'Don't leave me, okay? This place scares me.'

'Don't worry, Sakura. I wont let anything happen to you.'

'You promise?'

'I promise.'

They looked at each other, and Sakura gave one of her perfect smiles. It only brightened when she saw Syaoran smile, a true smile, which he rarely did.

'So, where do you think we are?'

'I don't know. You're the one who knows more about this stuff.' Touya answered. They were walking to the same whiteness as the rest, wondering about almost the same questions.

Yukito looked at him in sadness. 'He doesn't know either. It…it's the first time I have seen him scared. Something it terribly wrong here.'

Hearing a scared tone in his friends voice, he put an arm around his shoulder for comfort. 'Don't worry, if something will happen, he will be ready, as usual. And if he isn't, I will.'

'Arigato, Touya-kun. I know you will. But same as last time, I…ehm he, is probably the one to save you again.' He sniggered as Touya glared at him playfully.

'Okay, so we're going to Sakura first.' Eriol said. 'Though I think she isn't alone anymore.' His mischievous smile had returned on his lips, since he knew for sure Tomoyo was okay now.

'It doesn't matter, as long as we find her. She's probably in more stress then I was…' Tomoyo replied. She was really worried about Sakura, the not-want-to-be-alone-type, as her emerald eyed friend was.

She sat down and concentrated, following the instructions Eriol gave. Soon she saw a small flash, and felt a pair of feet's tripping over her knees. She opened her eyes and saw Sakura lying on the floor, wondering why she had fallen over the knees of Tomoyo.

'Tomoyo…?' Sakura bolted up and hugged Tomoyo, who she realized was the one she tripped over indeed. 'Thank god you're alright!' Sakura said.

'Hai, I'm okay, how are you Sakura-chan?'

Sakura smiled at Tomoyo. 'It's okay, Syaoran found me before I went totally crazy.'

Tomoyo looked up and saw Syaoran standing, who had walked left of Sakura, and that way didn't trip over Tomoyo as she had suddenly appeared. Eriol stood at the right. No one tripped over him and he smiled as always.

'Eriol-kun!' Sakura exclaimed. 'Are you okay too?'

'Hai, Sakura-chan. I'm glad you are too, it's a good thing Syaoran found you, isn't it?' He answered meaningfully. Syaoran and Tomoyo sweat dropped, but Sakura just smiled and nodded. It surely was a good thing.

'How did you get here, anyway?' Sakura asked then, remembering the sudden appearances of Tomoyo and Eriol, and therefore Syaoran.

'Well, I do know, but do you really want to know?' Eriol said mischievously. Syaoran looked at him, and suddenly wasn't so sure anymore, but Sakura did.

'We are trapped inside different cards. The one who set the trap, must be the owner of the cards, but doesn't know all about them yet. Because in every trap is a way out. For him, knowing what he has done to all of us, this way out is something hard to achieve. But, we are not him, so for us, it really isn't that hard.'

Everyone looked at him, puzzled. He hadn't answered the question at all. It was more like telling a story, but then one made of facts. 'He has spend to many time with Takashi already.' Tomoyo muttered under her breath, but they heard it.

'Anyway, all you have to do is think hard of the one you really care for, and want to be with, and you'll go there. At least, if that person is in the same kind of thing as we are.'

Syaoran realized why he didn't want to know that fact. It meant he found Sakura, because he cared so much about her, and wanted to be with her. He looked at her, and saw a deep blush on her face. She knew as well. Sweat drops appeared at all foreheads.

Finally, Syaoran spoke. 'Well, let's go find Meilin then.'

'And Kero.' Sakura said. Everyone looked at her, puzzled again. Kero was left at home. 'I saw him coming out of my luggage before we disappeared.'

The sweat drops, again. Kero always came when he was not allowed.

Ywdoranc felt like smashing the mirror on his desk, but was wise enough to not do so. Years and years of planning had passed, and at the moment everything should be his, all went wrong.

They have found a way to each other, which they are not supposed to do. How could this have happened? I had thought of everything. Scared as they were, they were not supposed to think of their loved ones! Their supposed to be scared!

He started to pace, creating circles in the thick carpeting. He figured out what went wrong, and the smart kid with the glasses had said the same. He relied to much on his own feelings in this trap.

This can be a problem…

But he didn't give up. Stupid as his mistakes had been – very stupid – this wasn't the end. It had just begun, and not everything would go wrong, just because of his failure in this part.

They had been scared nonetheless, and that's most important. The beginning of their suffer has begun.

Pacing at the carpet, he didn't notice the hint of victory in the eyes of his slave, still standing in front of the larger mirror in the dark room.

AN: whiejj another chap! I finally get more reviews…THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! Heheh it's not weekend, I know, so maybe another chap this weekend…who knows…

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