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Please, Don't Forget
Chapter Six: Skeletons
They walked out of the café.
"I don't get it." Sakura said as they walked down the street. "Something feels wrong. Like we're being followed."
"It's okay." Syaoran smiled, letting go of her hand and wrapping his arm around her shoulder comfortingly. "I wont let anything happen to you."
Sakura smiled up at him and leaned her head on his shoulder. Perfect fit.
Why did being with Syaoran like this feel so natural to Sakura?
They continued down the street, the only light leading them was the glow from the streetlamps above.
"So, why did you come to Tamoeda anyway?" Sakura asked, deciding to make some conversation while they walked.
"I had some things to do for my…family." Syaoran said. He sounded almost…unsure. "When I was ten I came here to Tamoeda, and I guess I just couldn't leave."
Sakura sighed. "That's sounds nice. Though…don't you miss your family?"
Syaoran laughed. "I go and see them sometimes. But I wasn't really happy there. My dad died when I was really young and I was living with my mom and sisters. So I guess I was happy to come live here on my own with Meilin and Wei."
"Wei?"
"A family friend." Syaoran smiled.
"Oh." Sakura sighed. "I'm sorry about your father."
"It's okay." Syaoran shrugged.
"I feel bad." Sakura said. "I don't remember you coming here."
Syaoran wished, more than ever, that he could tell her everything. Especially how much he loved her.
Suddenly, Sakura stopped walking.
"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked.
"Something's not right." Sakura said, pointing ahead of them. The road was dark, totally black, the streetlamps had gone out. "Those lights never go out. The city wont allow them to."
"It's okay." Syaoran said, hugging her more tightly against him. "I won't let anything happen to you."
He felt Sakura relax a little against him.
"O-Okay." So they began to walk again.
As they went further and further into the street, they only discovered that it got darker.
"I can barely see where we're going." Sakura said.
"Don't worry, I have a good sense of direction in the dark." Syaoran said.
Plus, he had trained his eyes partially to see better in the dark.
Suddenly, the streetlamps went on again, though not as brightly as they should. It was almost as if they were surrounded by a thick fog.
"This is weird." Sakura breathed.
I will have her…
"W-What was that?" Sakura gasped.
You can't protect her forever Syaoran.
"Who said that?" Syaoran demanded, letting go of Sakura's shoulders, his hand finding hers. "Show yourself! Who are you?" There was a laugh. I will get my revenge on the Cardcaptors. Even you, Syaoran, will have your time.
Syaoran's eyes widened as figures appeared out of the shadows.
"S-Syaoran…" Sakura whimpered, huddling closer to him, her eyes wide in horror. "Who are those people?"
Syaoran didn't answer her, because they weren't people.
They were skeletons.
Suddenly something shot towards the two.
"Look out!" Syaoran cried, wrapping his arms around Sakura and diving to the side.
They landed with a thud on the sidewalk.
"A-Are you okay Sakura?" Syaoran asked.
She didn't answer.
Syaoran looked down at her. She was unconscious.
Syaoran laid her gently on the ground, getting to his feet and turning angrily to the skeletons, who had succeeded in surrounding them.
"Who the fuck are you?" He snarled.
You can fight them all you want Syaoran. The voice said, echoing across the street, But you will not stop me from achieving my goal.
"Show yourself you coward! Fight me like a man, don't use these stupid old bones!" Syaoran shouted into the darkness.
No one answered.
"Fine." Syaoran snarled, ripping his pendant from his neck and whispering the words he needed to make the sword transform.
His pendant glowed brightly, and soon he had a sharp blade in his hands.
As the skeletons advanced on Syaoran, the teenager pulled his cell phone from his pocket, quickly pressing the button for Eriol's number.
"Hello?" The boy answered.
"Eriol!" Syaoran cried, baking away from the skeletons, hovering over Sakura's motionless body protectively. "Get your ass over here now!"
"What are you talking about?" Eriol asked, sounding confused.
"There's skeletons, they're alive!" Syaoran shouted into the phone. "The person, I heard his voice. Sakura's unconscious. Get over here NOW!"
With that Syaoran hung up, just in time to slash a skeleton with his sword.
Seeing their fallen comrade, the skeletons charged at Syaoran.
They had knives. Sharp knives.
With a gasp Syaoran slammed against the stone fence behind him as a skeleton slashed him with it's dagger.
"Fuck!" Syaoran hissed, stabbing the skeleton in the head and kicking it away.
The skeletons just kept on coming, even if he hit them down of cut off their heads, they kept coming.
Syaoran tossed a talisman into the air. "Force, know my plight, release the light! Fire!"
He hit the talisman with the flat of his sword. Instantly a spiral of flames shot from the talisman, wrapping itself around some of the skeletons, reducing their bones to ash.
"Well," Syaoran smirked, holding up another talisman. "That works."
More skeletons were coming at him now, their daggers drawn and slashing at them.
"Now, element, f-" Syaoran shouted, but was cut off as a skeleton threw it's knife at him, the blade sinking into his shoulder.
Syaoran fell backwards onto the ground beside Sakura, dark blood soaking his black t-shirt.
"D-Damn it." Syaoran stammered, getting to his feet shakily, pulling the knife from his shoulder. He gasped in pain, looking down at the blade, the familiar sheen of his own blood on the cold metal. "You guys are so dead."
"Fire!" He shouted, hitting another talisman with his sword, another wave of fire shooting around the skeletons, turning them to dust.
But there was still more.
"Shit." Syaoran hissed, standing in front of Sakura. "There's too many!"
I will have my revenge. The voice said again.
"He's still here!" Syaoran gasped. "Come out and fight me you bastard!"
Suddenly, Syaoran heard a familiar voice.
"I call upon the power of the day and night. Sun and darkness, unleash your might. Release!" A wave of lighting suddenly appeared from the sky, striking the skeletons in front of Syaoran.
"Eriol!" Syaoran grinned as Eriol jumped down from the high stone fence to stand beside his friend, Meilin landing beside him, Tomoyo was on Keroberos' back, Yue beside him.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo cried, getting off Kero's back and sinking to her knees beside her friend. "Is she okay?"
"She's fine." Syaoran said. "Just knocked out."
"Thank God." Keroberos sighed, hovering protectively around Sakura and Tomoyo.
"Ready to kick some skeleton ass?" Eriol asked Syaoran with a sly grin.
Syaoran nodded, holding a talisman between two fingers. "But of course."
Syaoran hit the talisman and shouted "Fire!" just as Eriol sent another wave of lighting onto the skeletons.
In seconds, the armies of the un-dead was gone, reduced to ash on the road.
"Nice." Syaoran sighed, sinking down to the ground, leaning on the cold stone wall.
"Syaoran!" Meilin asked, worriedly. "Are you okay?"
Syaoran nodded. "Bastards stabbed me."
"Shit!" Eriol gasped, kneeling beside Syaoran to look at the wound. "It's deep."
"It's fine." Syaoran snapped.
"Yeah, right." Eriol rolled his eyes, waving his staff across the wound.
"Hey! Watch where your swinging that thing!" Syaoran hissed. "It's sharp! I want to keep my eyes thank you!"
Eriol smirked and mumbled a few words in a different language under his breath. A bright glow emitted from his staff. When the glow had gone, Syaoran's would was healed, only the rip of the shirt and the blood remained.
"Thanks." Syaoran said.
"So who attacked you?" Meilin asked. "Other than the creepy skeletons."
"I don't know." Syaoran said, looking over at Sakura. Yue had the unconscious girl in his arms, he was looking down at her gingerly, just happy to see his mistress again after a year. "All I heard was his voice."
"So it's a he?" Tomoyo asked.
Syaoran nodded. "Yeah. But it didn't sound like anyone I knew. At least…I didn't recognize the voice."
"Well…we found something." Eriol said.
"Really? What?" Syaoran asked, hopeful.
"Well…" Eriol sighed. "It seems that thousands of years ago, back when the first Cardcaptors were born, there was this guy, a sorcerer. He wanted ultimate power, and for that he sought out the Cardcaptors. But when he found them and challenged them in battle…"
"Let me guess," Syaoran said flatly. "He lost."
Eriol nodded. "The sorcerer was a bad man, a very bad man, and for that the Cardcaptors sealed him in the spirit world for all eternity."
"Yeah…so? He's still there, right?"
Eriol shrugged. "I don't know. I mean, the Cardcaptors have many enemies…but this guy was the worst of them all. He wanted the Cardcaptors dead. Or at least for them to suffer greatly and then die."
"So he was a psycho, basically." Meilin smirked.
Syaoran sighed and closed his eyes, leaning back against the wall. "But…there are no Cardcaptors anymore. I mean…it's only Sakura. She's the Card Mistress now. I'm just…some kid with powers."
"True." Eriol said. "But if this guy, whoever he is, saw you before then he may have thought you were a Cardcaptor."
"Or he could have been watching you and Sakura since you were little." Keroberos added.
"Yes." Eriol agreed. "So when he saw your powers, he probably decided to make you suffer in the most painful way possible."
"By taking the one you love away from you." Meilin said, sounding a little sad.
Eriol nodded, agreeing with her. "Exactly."
"So…how do we know if we've met this guy or not?" Syaoran asked.
Eriol shrugged. "You can't really. He has to reveal himself to you or Sakura. And if somehow Sakura can break the spell…then that'll piss him off, and he's bound to show himself."
"Or maybe…" Tomoyo gasped. "Oh my God! I never thought of this before!"
"What?" Meilin asked. "Thought of what?"
"Well, Tomoyo sighed. "Sakura remembers her Cardcaptor days while she dreams right?"
"Right…" Meilin said blankly, not getting it.
"So maybe she's seen the guy or whatever who attacked her and erased her memory! All we have to do is find her pictures and look through them, or just ask her if she's had a dream where she's on the Tokyo tower."
"That would work, we may as well try it." Syaoran shrugged. "But don't forget she's been on the Tokyo tower many times between the age of ten and fifteen."
Tomoyo sighed. "I guess your right Li."
Syaoran nodded. "But we can still try, you never know."
Sakura stirred slightly in Yue's arms, a small groan escaping her lips.
"We'd better get her home to Touya." Yue said quickly. "Before she wakes up."
Keroberos grinned. "I doubt she'd be happy if she woke with you in her face."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Yue growled defensively.
Syaoran laughed. "Could you take her home Yue?"
Yue nodded, gave Kero one last glare, and soared into the air, his white wings carrying him quickly into the dark sky.
Syaoran watched after them, hope building inside his chest. If they could find a picture of her attacker, or even get a dream about it out of her…there may be hope.
Or…if somehow…she can break the spell. Syaoran thought.
"Syaoran, there's something else." Eriol said softly.
"Hmm? What?"
"The Star Cards." Tomoyo said with a sigh. "Since Sakura had been away from them for so long…they're…growing darker."
"Darker? What's that supposed to mean?" Syaoran asked, confused.
"It means," Eriol said. "That if Sakura doesn't remember her powers quick and get to the cards…they'll be released into the world."
Syaoran gasped. "But that would mean complete chaos! Without a master they'll run wild!"
"Maybe that's what this guy wants." Meilin said. "To hurt the Cardcaptors, get the Star cards free…then get them for himself and be rid of the Cardcaptors forever."
Syaoran stared blankly at the ground.
We are so screwed.
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