The previous chapter ends with a dream of Sue Young showing up. If you don't know about her you really have to watch the first Cardcaptor movie.
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Ngoc 1231- I'm glad that you like the story. I hope that you like this chapter. It might not be as interesting with as many twists or turns but they're coming up in the next few chapters.
Moonspell- You're asking that characters purpose to be explained. Well the only one that I can really explain without ruining the story is Likaun. She is meant as a nuisance and a possible distraction. She will be used to try and drive a wedge between the two even if she has to sleep with him as you recall. As for Kin-Li she will be explained soon. The four sister are there because well it is their home. Tomoyo because she is Sakura's best friend. I hope that helps. That's all I can say because all shall be revealed shortly.
Tramie thank you for editing the previous chapters. If you're reading this before I can send an e-mail to you (which should be right after I get this posted) then I'm sorry for not having you edit it before it was put up. As you know I'm trying to get as much up before school starts tomorrow. I hope I can get one more chapter up before tomorrow anyways. Well I'll talk to you guys later.
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I only have fun writing them!
Chapter 17
The dream changed from one of peace to one holding terror of the night and the loss of a dear one but it was a vague interruption that left her unsettled. The dream hadn't finished when she woke with a start. She started awake with a sweat.
"Sakura-chan are you alright?" Kero was hovering above his mistress. He had managed to send everybody out of the room although he wasn't sure that they weren't just standing right outside her door. He could feel all of their auras, including one that he didn't recognize. Well two if he counted the new girl Kin- Li. He wondered about her. There was something familiar about her and yet there wasn't. It was hard to explain but he wasn't going to try to figure it out right now. Right now his mistress was in trouble of herself.
Sakura looked at Kero with dilated eyes before she nodded her head. Kero was accustomed to be stuffed in a drawer when she was changing. He wasn't accustomed however to her walking past and ignoring him. "Sakura?" He asked following her only to find himself on the floor where the door had been slammed in his face. "Oh no."
-Outside the door-
"She's awake." Feimei whispered quietly.
"Good I can go check on her." Shaoran began to open her door.
"Wait. She won't accept anything now." Feimei said in a silent despaired whisper.
"It's not too late." Shaoran denied silently.
"Wait Li-kun." A new voice joined the group.
"Why she's hurting in there?"
"She's doing that and more. She's in more danger now than she will ever be again in her life."
"What do you mean and how do you know this?"
"She must open her heart. She was just starting to do that. She was just starting to open up. Now it will be much harder." Kin-Li left the room.
They all looked after her shocked. "What do we do to get her back?" They all left from her door knowing that she was no longer in the room.
-Eriol-
'You are but a child in a woman's body. Who are you and why do you know so much? He thought to himself as he watched her figure disappear all the while knowing that this one would never be able to tell all that she knew or it would put them all in jeopardy.
She didn't quite fit in though. There was something that held back her laughter that he knew was held deep with in the recesses of her heart. There was something that kept the sadness where there should be a smile all through her features. Sadness was all wrong for her somehow he just couldn't explain why. Eriol didn't finish the sad thought.
He had caught a glimpse into her mind and only saw the deep well that she kept trying to climb out of. She kept falling in to a time that she was but four or five and had to watch her someone that was about her age being taken away from her. She screamed for mommy because she couldn't do anything. He didn't see a face. He saw the mere shadow of a woman giving her daughter a comforting hug her heart breaking almost as if she had lost a child.
Eriol shook his head in despair. Who was this family? Who was this girl and why was she important that she be here? That was the only the beginning the questions that were forming in her mind.
-Sakura-
Sakura sat on the ground not noticing that the grass withered underneath her. She closed her eyes thinking of two things. One was of the vision that the illusionist showed her yesterday of all her friends and whoever her husband was supposed to be.
The other thing was the visit of Sue Young. It had been a surprise. A pleasant one at that but she couldn't forget how the dream changed from the pleasant meadows to the very devastatingly dark that she had seen very briefly. 'I won't lose everyone that is precious to me.'
She felt her heart and knew that she would keep that vow. That was when her barrier went up allowing no one anywhere near her.
-Kero-
Kero felt that barrier just as he was sure everyone else felt it. 'Oh this isn't good.' He knew he couldn't get even past her barrier when it became this strong. He looked out the window to see the vegetation around her was brown.
Eriol walked into the room. He looked out the window with a grim look. "Tell me how bad it was before?"
"This is just a little bit worse." Kero's answer was silent.
Eriol didn't say anything as he watched what was going on around her. He could see where the barrier stopped. He could also see her training with her cards. He couldn't take watching her go through this. 'She's my daughter and yet I can't stop this.'
"She has to make this decision on her own Eriol." Yelan walked in. "Our time to fight by her side will come soon."
"I know Aunt Yelan." He whispered sadly thinking about what she was going through.
"Right now we're all vulnerable."
"As long as one of us is vulnerable she's in danger." Feimei finished his thought as she walked in.
"Who would they go after first?" Eriol asked.
"I think that they would go after our weakest link first."
"Tomoyo." He shuddered to think of what they could do to her if they could control her power of which she hadn't been able to harness. He didn't want to think about what they could do with the power to freeze time. He wasn't sure what Tomoyo would be doing with this power but he had to make sure that it was used for naught but good.
-Tomoyo-
Tomoyo felt the barrier go up but it wasn't all that she was feeling. She felt the anger and denial with that barrier. She didn't know why she could feel that though. He knew that there was little that they could do to help right now. "Tomoyo!" She stepped outside her door when she heard Eriol cal her name.
"Eriol." She asked.
"We need to do some training. We haven't been able to do any for a couple of days."
"How can I train when someone I love is hurting and I can't help her right now?" Tomoyo looked down at the floor.
"You have to. You have barely been able to get your powers under control." He didn't tell her that her life was in danger. He didn't tell her that they all depended upon it. He didn't tell her that Sakura's life depended upon it. He couldn't tell her that.
"Eriol what are you not telling me?"
"Nothing." He replied.
She knew he was lying. She had learned from watching Sakura draw away to read people. She nodded her head not knowing what else she could do. When they arrived to the training area it seemed that everything was different. Where it was just Eriol training her but Yelan and Meiling were out there as well. Feimei stood to the side making sure that the magic shield was in place. The shield was stronger like it held more than one persons power there. Kin-Li came down from her room. "Is it time?" She asked.
Eriol studied her for a minute. He looked just a little into her mind only to find that she showed him nothing this time. "What do you see?" She asked quietly.
He merely turned his attention to Tomoyo who was intently watching Eriol. "It is time." He repeated her question.
Tomoyo looked at the young woman that had recently joined them. 'Who are you?' She asked the silent question.
Nadeshiko looked at Tomoyo as if to answer her question but didn't really. There was something holding the answer back. Tomoyo turned her attention back to Eriol who had already begun to mix a portal on with Meiling. The portal had turned to naught but ice and stood still. That gave her an eerie feeling in and of itself.
It was as if there was this impending doom. She gave the three people a careful look. 'What are you hiding from me?' She didn't expect an attack from Meiling. Meiling that was cold."
"When you are attacked there will be something a lot worse cold ice. You must expect the unexpected."
"Meiling what are you talking about?" Tomoyo looked at the group around her confused. She suddenly felt largely outnumbered. She wasn't ready for the next attack either. "Ouch." She muttered already getting tired of being attacked by surprise. She closed her eyes for just a moment before she felt the vortex behind her to melt. 'Alright I'm ready.'
The air around her stilled but she could feel that the people around her hadn't. They had changed positions and were ready to start another onslaught of attacks. Meiling sent a watery stream her way that she managed to sidestep for only a moment. 'I don't want to necessarily stop time.' Was what she kept thinking. The trouble was she didn't know exactly what she could do or even how to do it.
The vortex behind her completely melted and made a powerful howling wind. The wind then became chilled but with a contradictory heat. That didn't make any kind of sense actually. Where was the heat coming from?
Her mind's eye saw Kin-Li but not as she was now. She saw her as a little girl but found that there was a future image of the young woman. She just couldn't see her face. Tomoyo tuned out everyone and everything that was going on around her.
The group around stopped they're attacks momentarily in surprise. Tomoyo could see the attacks start again. This time the attack was more powerful and came from one person. There was a light purple haze that showed around her reversing the attack back to Kin-Li. It missed her by a mere arch of a back flip.
'Very good. Now let's see what else she can pull out of her sleeve.' Eriol started.
Eriol smiled as he started two different vortexes causing a whole bunch of wind that about blew everyone away. That was until Tomoyo seemed to make them shrink. When that was complete she felon her knees.
"That was good Tomoyo. We'll train later."
"Do we really have to?" Tomoyo gasped.
"Yes." They all answered simultaneously.
-Touya-
Touya woke up from his sleep to find he felt and saw something that he had not seen since well he gave his powers to help Yue when he was feeding off of Sakura's powers. "Okaasan?" He whispered groggily thinking that he had only seen an image of her because he had been thinking about her.
"Yes, it is me. Welcome back."
"What's going on?"
She smiled, reaching out with her ghost like fingers to touch his cheek. "It's time."
"What does that mean?"
-In another place-
"We are out of time."
"I am well aware of that. We have one more option. WE have to get her to join us."
"She won't do that."
"I'll see you in time."
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I'm sad to say that is the end of this chapter. I'm even sadder to say that this story is coming to an end. I can feel it. It makes me want to cry. I start classes tomorrow so I won't be able to post as often as I like. This story has turned out different that I expected but then again a lot of stories that I do will. Well I'll be quiet now and let you review.
