Power Isn't Everything
Authoress: Lil Kawaii Water Dragon
Rating: PG13
Category: Anime-Card Captor Sakura
Genre: Adventure/Action/Romance
Summary: Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Meiling and Ryuji are sent to Hogwarts to 7th year by the Sorcerers Committee as one of their own turned sides to evil. What adventures await them?
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS or HP... I own Ryuji, and Joey Marvin though, the Sorcerers Committee, and this plot too...
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Chapter two
Sakura woke up early the next morning, Of course, she wasn't the only one up early. As usual, Syaoran, being the next Li Clan leader in a year, had always been up early doing the usual morning training.
Sakura changed into her robes, though they were slightly different than the school thanks to Tomoyo who just couldn't keep her hands away from the uniforms of her friends.
Sakura walked down the girls' dorm stairs that led to the common room, the fire from last night still up and shining, she took a seat on one of the chairs in by the fire watching it, she closed her eyes and let her senses run.
She heard the cracking of the fire in front of her, the soft breathing of the Gryffindor students sleeping, Ron mumbling in his sleep about homework, and Harry shifting in his sleep. How could she tell it was them? She had memorized their different auras, Harry had an aura, to untrained sorcerers it would look clear, but looking at it you'd see it had a slight tint of green, Ron had a slight tint of orange.
She continued to listen, she stretched her senses out to the other houses, she recognized some foot steps in the Ravenclaw common room, as Eriol's. She stretched her senses even further and she heard the birds chirping outside, the wind blowing, the trees swaying, and Syaoran… somewhere near the Quidditch pitch doing his usual training, she opened her eyes and smiled, she got up and walked outside and making sure her aura was concealed and her every move was silent not to be heard she jumped on Syaoran giggling.
"Good morning Syaoran-kun!" she greeted happily.
"Ah!" he cried in shock and he fell forwards at the impact of Sakura grabbing onto his back.
"Oh! Sakura-chan it's you, Good morning." He greeted back, his sword turned back into its pendant and he put it back around his neck.
"Were you expecting someone else?" she asked.
Syaoran laughed, "No… wait a minute… what time is it?" he asked.
Sakura looked up at the sun, "Hmmm, my guess would be around 6:30… why?"
"6:30?" asked Syaoran.
"Yes." Sakura replied, they still hadn't noticed they were still on the ground.
"My oh my…" said Syaoran chuckling, his hand on her forehead, "you don't seem to have a fever."
"Nani?" Sakura blushed.
"Sakura, you're up so early in the morning and no one had to wake you up!"
Sakura growled and got up from on top of him, "What's up with you guys? I was young! I'm older now and I grew out of those habits!" she huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest, she turned on her heel and walked away.
Syaoran shook his head and chuckled, he got up and followed her, "You know I don't mean it that way right?"
Sakura just looked away and continued to walk away.
Syaoran sighed, "Gomenasi Sakura…" he apologized, "I didn't mean to offend you in anyway, I would never offend you, please forgive me. What can I do to make you forgive me?"
Sakura looked back at him for a minute as if thinking.
"I'll do anything! Please forgive me." Syaoran continued, "You just name it, I'll do it, please?"
They stopped walking Sakura looked at Syaoran, her hands on her hips and smirk clear on her face. This made Syaoran wonder, 'Should he have really said anything?'
"Anything Syaoran?" she asked, her emerald eyes twinkled with mischief.
Syaoran muttered something along the lines of hanging around Hiiragizawa and Daidouji, the sneaking little pair who always come up with those little schemes.
"Yes anything! You name it." He said knowing he would someday regret it.
"I'll think about it." Said Sakura as she turned around again making her way towards the Great Hall where only few students sat at their tables.
Syaoran sighed as he followed behind her.
By 7-o-clock the hall began to fill up with the rest of the students. Sakura still hadn't given Syaoran an answer about forgiving him, personally he thinks she just holding it back because she likes seeing him nervous.
When he told Eriol about it Eriol practically died laughing, Eriol walked over to Sakura and draped an arm around her shoulders congratulating her on making Syaoran nervous and that she really should teach him some day.
Syaoran glared at him and nodded inwardly about his theory on Sakura spending too much time with the lunatic and the crazy camera girl as he nicknamed them.
Sakura giggled at Eriol and nodded and continued talking with Hermione and Ginny about things becoming close Friends.
Syaoran glowered when he saw Eriol laughing with Tomoyo, then Tomoyo running to Meiling who just came in with Ryuji, and the four of them laughed, stopped for a bit, look at Syaoran and then each other and laugh again.
Syaoran sighed and mumbled to himself, "this is going to be a long day."
Soon Harry and Ron had come down and began talking with Syaoran about Quidditch.
By the time every student had arrived in the great hall the Professors began passing out the schedules to the students and class began.
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Sakura being in seventh year took Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Charms, Herbology, Transfiguration along with Potions. The exact subjects they would go to for becoming an Auror.
Since there aren't many in a class all the houses fit and were together unlike the first five years.
First every morning was Defence Against the Dark Arts, Sakura walked along side Harry, Ron and Hermione, Syaoran followed behind them with Eriol. Tomoyo, Meiling and Ryuji didn't take DADA so they had break.
Sakura sat next to Eriol with Syaoran on her other side while Hermione, Harry and Ron took the table behind them.
Draco Malfoy who just entered took the table next to Sakura's and soon the rest of the students who attended all took their seats and the professor came in.
"Good morning everyone. Please, close you're books, right now you won't be needing them. I am Joey Marvin, you're new professor, as you all know. And since I don't know any of you, please, introduce yourselves, we'll start with this table over here."
For the first fifteen minutes of the class, it was spent introducing each other.
"Now that we all know each other, shall we begin?" asked the professor happily.
"Can anyone tell me any forms of Dark magic?"
Hermione's hand went up, "Yes Miss Granger?" asked the professor.
"I read once that there are three different types of Dark magic." She said.
"Yes, that is partly true, there are more forms of Dark magic, but there are only three that are or… were used many times. But I asked if you know any, not how many there were. Miss Granger, do you know any?"
Hermione was silent, and shook her head.
Whispers erupted from some students, 'Hermione doesn't know?'
Harry and Ron looked at Hermione who took out her book and quickly skimmed through the pages.
Sakura raised her hand.
"Ah, Miss Kinomoto."
"There are the Modern day form of Dark Magic, like the Cruciatus curse. Then there is the Potion form of Dark Magic." Said Sakura, "Lastly there are the Sorcery form of dark magic-"
Sakura was cut off by one student, "But sorcerers have been long gone since the middle-ages probably."
Sakura smiled, "If you must know just because you don't see sorcerers, it doesn't mean they don't exist, sorcerers like working alone or if they are in a group it's quite small, they don't use the same form of magic as wizards, they don't use wands for one thing, they do wand less spells, but if they need more energy to do the spell, they either have a staff or a sword that holds energy in it that they can use. But this is beside the point.
Sorcery Dark magic since you all say Sorcerers are gone, you probably never heard of it, their dark magic can be like a curse, if one were to curse you, depending on the curse, you may not die… instead you'd be living in hell, having to live everyday in pain without dieing unless it's of a natural health cause or you were killed. But then, by then you'd have a family, and have kids, this curse would be passed down generation-to-generation, you're family in pain. The only way to stop it from passing down is to find a cure. But to find the cure could take years depending on how many years it's been since the curse was first given to a person." Sakura smirked inwardly seeing the shocked faces of her classmates.
(Thanks to Kawaii Rubber Ducky and xxPink Angel Butterfly for letting me use their curse theory.)
The professor clapped, "Very well said Miss Kinomoto."
Hermione who had taken out a piece of parchment and her quill had begun taking notes of what Sakura said, Sakura who gladly explain everything to her friend smiled.
Soon enough, the class ended and they went to their next awaiting class.
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That evening while Sakura and the rest of the students were eating supper Syaoran brought up the subject on forgiving him.
Sakura giggled, "I forgave you hours ago Syaoran-kun." She said.
Syaoran sighed in relief, "So I don't have to do anything right?" he asked her.
Sakura smirked, "actually…"
Harry and Ron almost laughed out loud seeing the terrified face of Syaoran, Hermione who also was trying to contain her giggles turned to Ginny so he wouldn't see.
"No. You don't have to do anything." She said and laughed.
Meiling who had come to hear Sakura's "punishment" pouted "aw, why didn't you make him do something?" she sighed and looked at her cousin and laughed, "You should've seen you're face!" she then whispered in his ear, "You so fell for her!"
Syaoran blushed and Meiling walked back to her table trying to tell Ryuji why she was laughing, though, the only words he actually caught were "Sakura", "punishment" and "Syaoran's Face". Ryuji just went along with it and looked at Tomoyo at the Ravenclaw table who was laughing with Eriol to get a better answer.
Half way through supper, Sakura felt the hair one the back of her neck rise again, but this time she was careful not to let her aura slip. Her emerald eyes surveyed the room, looking at every student, into every shadow at everything non- living and living thing in the room, but she saw nothing suspicious.
Sakura excused herself from the table and walked out of the great hall, her friends eyed each other but shrugged thinking she's just going to the bathroom.
Sakura walked through the halls and she soon found herself in the out of order girls' bathroom.
She looked around, everything seemed to be in place, nothing out of the ordinary here.
"Oh hello there."
Sakura turned around and came face to face with Moaning Myrtle.
Sakura instantly paled.
"I'm Myrtle…" she smiled, "I haven't got visitors lately, what's you're name."
Sakura backed up, "I- I'm Sakura… and… and you're a ghost!"
Myrtle frowned, "You can't just say I'm a ghost in that tone… it's not like I wanted to be dead." Myrtle continued rambling.
"HOOOEEE!" Sakura shouted in fright and she ran out of the bathroom and bumped into someone. Before she could fall the person grabbed hold of her wrist.
"S-so-sorry." Sakura apologized still shook up from her encounter with the ghost, she looked up to see a cloaked person she tried to free her arm from his grasp but the cloaked male didn't let go.
"Card Mistress." Came the voice.
Sakura shivered, "It was you." She said, "You were watching me."
"You are coming with me."
"No! Let me go!"
Moaning Myrtle who followed Sakura after she ran away saw this and quickly made her way to Dumbledore.
Sakura kicked the person in the shins causing him to let her go.
She was about to run when a ball of dark energy came her way, it hit her in the stomach causing her to crash into a wall.
The man took hold on her arm again and pulled her up.
Sakura began to glow as she glared at him.
"Don't even think about it girly." He said, he grabbed her by the neck and push her against the wall, Sakura tried to kick him but his knees held them, with his free hand he had his wand pointed at the side of her head, she could practically see him smirking under that hood of his.
"Let me guess." Sakura began with difficulty, "You… want my… cards. Right?"
She could barely breath now.
"Not me… my boss, so you'll give them here and you won't get hurt… much."
"Never." She managed to gasp out.
He summoned up another orb of dark energy, he threw her in the air and shot it at her causing her to fly to the other side of the hall unconscious, bleeding and breathing heavily.
The cloaked man was about to get her when he heard footsteps he quickly disappeared.
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Eriol, Syaoran and Ryuji stood up sensing something was wrong when the doors burst open and Moaning Myrtle flew in.
"Dumbledore! Dumbledore! Intruder inside the castle! He's got the new girl!" she cried.
Dumbledore stood up immediately and ran out of the hall, the professors and Sorcerers behind him, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco along with the other students quickly made their way towards the commotion.
By the time they arrived Sakura was laying on the floor in a small puddle of blood.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo and Syaoran quickly ran to her followed by Eriol, Meiling, and Ryuji.
Dumbledore picked Sakura up, while professor Flitwick did a charm cleaning the mess.
Students began whispering, it was only the second day back and there was an attack.
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny pushed their way through the crowd, and walked towards the tearful Tomoyo and Meiling.
"Tell Madame Pomfrey to get a bed set and ready, Myrtle I want you to tell me what happened." Said Dumbledore.
One of the professors went to the Hospital wing, and Dumbledore quickened his pace with Myrtle beside him floating and telling him everything.
"She came into the bathroom, it seemed like she was looking for something, I introduced herself, and she introduced herself then said that I'm a ghost in a tone I didn't like very much. So I told her that it wasn't like I wanted to be dead and haunting a bathroom, I mean, just because I'm dead doesn't mean I don't have feelings right?" Myrtle continued rambling.
"Myrtle, please continue…" said Dumbledore.
"Right, anyways I continued explaining, but I don't think she was listening, she screaming some word I didn't get and ran out. I followed her to ask her what was wrong but then I saw this man… well it sounded like a man, he was wearing a cloak with a hood over his face so I couldn't see it, he held her by the wrist. That when I felt I should tell you… and then the rest you know."
"Thank you Myrtle." He they had finally arrived and Madame Pomfrey was already cleaning Sakura's wounds.
"You're welcome." And with that she disappeared.
Dumbledore sighed this wasn't good. Someone was after Sakura, Voldemort was out and about killing innocent people. Then there is Warui on the loose. This year didn't seem to go off on a good start.
Madame Pomfrey kicked everyone out as she examined Sakura wounds, she mumbled something about might having scars.
Draco who was behind the door hear everything she said, he frowned, 'it couldn't have been a death eater could it?'
Quickly disappearing to the Slytherin common room, he went into the boys' dorm and quickly contacted his father.
'What is it now?'
"Father." began Draco, "Did you send a death eater to school?" he asked.
'Don't be stupid Draco, we can't get into Hogwarts because of security, now if there is no meaning for this call-'
"That girl, Sakura Kinomoto, was attacked father, by a man in a cloak."
'Hmmm, all have a look into it, continue watching her.'
The connection died and Draco sighed.
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While Sakura was in the Hospital wing, Syaoran, Eriol, Ryuji, Meiling and Tomoyo were in Dumbledore's office.
They were contacting the Sorcerer's committee and they didn't like the news about their most powerful pupil being injured.
"Why didn't she use her magic?" asked one sorcerer.
Eriol sighed, "you and I both know that if Sakura used the cards everyone who has a trained eye will sense it from miles away, that, will blow our cover."
"But that's obscured, thinking of others before herself." Said another.
"No it isn't, because if she did use her cards, her aura would be pinpointed and the dangers are directed towards her." Said Syaoran.
A sorceress sighed, "I'll be sending a someone there to be placed in Slytherin, we need to watch all the houses."
They nodded.
"Please do be careful." She said and they ended the call.
Dumbledore sighed, "Well then, you all head back to your dorms, I'll be asking one of the professors to keep watch over Sakura tonight."
They all sighed and nodded and went to their dorms.
Things just got harder.
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Hello! What do you think of the second chapter? I hope you all enjoyed it!
I realized that I haven't updated for almost a year already so I apologize about that.
Thank you for all the reviews! I really enjoyed them!
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-Lil Kawaii Water Dragon-