Double Identity

By: Callista Miralni

Chapter Four: Princess Sakura

Thank sheer boredom that you're getting this chapter. I'm still waiting!

Disclaimer: I don't own CardCaptor Sakura. Happy?

"Tomoyo, where's Ying-Fa?" Meilin asked her friend in the Princess's sitting room.

"I dunno. Isn't she with Syaoran showing him the Citadel?" Tomoyo replied, concentrating intently on the design she was embroidering.

"No because Syaoran is with Eriol in the training courts."

"Then that means Princess Sakura will appear today." Tomoyo answered mysteriously.

Meilin looked at her friend curiously, but said nothing. She turned back to the shirt she was mending, her stiches neat and precise.

"Masters, it is time for lunch." a servant said to Eriol and Syaoran in the training courts with a bow. Syaoran dismissed him with a nod of his head and turned to Eriol.

"What were you saying about Ying-Fa?" Syaoran asked his cousin.

"She's not at the palace anymore." Eriol replied simply.

"Nani! How is that possible?" Syaoran exclaimed.

"Calm down my cute descendant. I ment she's somewhere else in Amaterasu attending to the King's affairs." Eriol answered with a smirk.

"But you said..." Syaoran started to say, but was cut off by Eriol dragging him to the dining hall to eat lunch.

"Come on my dear cute descendant. There will be time for questions later. But first let's satisfy my aching stomach." Eriol said to the younger boy.

Syaoran growled but let himself be dragged to lunch by Eriol anyway.

'Sometimes it's a real pain to have Eriol for a cousin and an ancestor.' Syaoran grumbled to himself.

After lunch, Syaoran and Eriol searched the palace for the other girls. Eriol was grinning widely to himself, and it was bugging Syaoran to death. He turned to Eriol and said through gritted teeth,

"Stop smiling! It's creeping me out!"

Eriol only smiled wider. "Nani? Is Syaoran finally scared of something?" They entered the library on the second floor.

However, the two royal weren't watching where they were going and soon bumped into someone.

"Oof. Itai, that really hurt." a slightly familiar voice said from the floor.

"Ying-Fa? I thought..." Syaoran said, eyes widening by the minute.

"Don't just stand there, help her up!" Eriol chided. He extended his hand to the girl on the floor, in which she gratefully took, and stood up from the floor.

As she dusted her dress off, she asked the two boys, "Who are you? And how do you know Ying-Fa?"

"None of your business. And who the heck are you?" Syaoran growled angrily.

"Ignore him. What he ment to say was 'Hello, I'm Prince Li Syaoran from Midori' and I'm Prince Hiiragizawa Eriol from LunaSoleil. We're friends of Ying-Fa." Eriol said with a smile.

She returned the smile. "I'm Princess Kinomoto Sakura of Amaterasu. I'm sorry we haven't met earlier. I was ill."

Suddenly, the doors of the library burst open. "Sakura-hime! There you are! Tomoyo-hime wants to see you. She said something about a fitting for a new dress." Meilin said hurriedly. "Oh hello, Eriol, Syaoran." she added, upon noticing her two cousins.

Sakura sighed. "Meilin, what have I told you? Drop the title and just call me Sakura, just plain old Sakura."

Meilin smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, I keep forgetting."

"Sakura-hime, we hafta go! Tomoyo-san looks like she gonna blow up from impatience! And she won't give me pudding!" A small stuffed bear look alike with wings and a lion's tail said worriedly after appearing out of thin air.

"Kero-chan, you'll get your pudding. Come on Meilin, we should leave before my dear cousin decides to let Hecate on the loose." Sakura said, shuddering at the prospect of her cousin's favorite goddess to call upon. Of course, the very deities themselves are bound to one master, who just so happened to be Ying-Fa.

"I thought Tomoyo-san didn't have magic." Syaoran interjected before the threesome left the library.

"She's a dowser. And you don't want to meet Hecate." Sakura answered.

Soon, Meilin and Kero dragged Sakura all the way up to Tomoyo's quarters.

"What took you so long? All I asked for was a simple favor and it takes you fifteen minutes to get here!" Tomoyo demanded, her amethyst eyes flashing as she slipped a thin gold chain wtih a small teardrop shaped amethyst off her neck. Chanting, Tomoyo called:

With this amethyst pendelum,
I, Daidouji Tomoyo, the dowser,
Stand before the gods,
And I, a willing participant, in the gods' great will.
Entrusted with Nature's power and spirits,
Earth, Water, Fire, and Air,
Grant unto me the thing that I seek.
I summon thee, Hecate!

Hecate, the Greek goddess. Some viewed the pale, slim woman with the eyes of three heads as an ill omen. The goddess of the crossroads, whose power reigned over the threefold: Nature, Heaven, and Earth. The mistress of the spirit realm, the master of magic, the nocturnal goddess of the moon. With her burning torch and her howling black dogs, Hecate was very frightening indeed.

Especially with the power of life, death, and birth in her hands.

"You called Tomoyo?" The Greek Goddess asked emotionless.

"Hecate-sama, make sure these three don't run off while I get my clothes. Bind them if they do." Tomoyo ordered. She left the room

Hecate noded. She turned her silver eyes upon Sakura, Meilin, and Kero, who all involuntarily shivered under her gaze.

"Sakura-sama, your cousin demands some odd things of me." Hecate told her mistress.

Sakura shook her head furiously. "Hecate-sama, please don't tell anyone in public that I am your mistress! They all think I have no magic!"

The goddess raised a slim black eyebrow. "Sakura-sama, you have the powers of the very gods under your control! And I am the goddess of magic!"

Tomoyo came back into the room. "Alright! Now, who wants to go first?"

Sakura and Meilin groaned. This was gonna be a long day.

"Oh and Hecate, you can go now. Thanks for your help." Tomoyo said cheerfully.

The goddess disappeared instantly. Tomoyo's eyes gained a sinister gleam as she said, "Sakura-chan..."

Sakura gulped but surrendered herself to her fate. As her manical cousin stabbed pins here and there in the fabric of the dress she was wearing, Sakura couldn't help but think,

'Why me?'

Review please!

I looked up more info on Hecate on Google. I tried to be as accurate as possible, without copying the websites, putting the info into my own words. Sorry if I've got anything wrong!

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Ja ne!
-Callista Miralni