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All on a Rainy Day
By Lady Enyce
Chapter 3: Shadows
Sakura woke up with something piercing in her head. She slowly brought her hands to her head and tried to remember what happened. All she could remember was that her head was throbbing and the rest of her body was sore. She blinked her eyes a couple of times to rid her blurry vision. She sat up and looked around her.
Yes, she was still in the ambulance, but it was different than before. It was completely empty! There was no other soul in there with her as far as she could tell. She stood up a bit too fast and hit the top of her head. She clutched her head and took a deep breath.
"Kuso…" Sakura moaned as she rubbed her head. She looked up and saw she hit her head on a machine. She walked to the back of the vehicle and tried to open the door, but it was locked.
"That's weird.." Sakura turned around and stared toward the front, "..where is everyone?" She walked a few steps to reach the front of the vehicle. She was going to climb over the seat to get out the door, but she noticed all the windows were shattered. She looked outside and saw it was pitch black. Fog started to creep into the ambulance with her. A shiver went down her spine as she kept on staring outside.
Just as she was about to step over a machine to get to the window, a beeping sound came from her sweatpants and made her jump. She took her cell phone out and it brightened up the room. She looked at the screen and saw she received a message. She pressed a button to see what the message was.
"Look up." Sakura read out loud. She couldn't understand the message. 'Look up?' she read in her mind. Then it finally hit her. She looked up from the cell phone and tilted her head back to see if anything was there. Her eyes widened. Right above her was two blood shot eyes looking down at her. It was pale and its neck was long and it was coming closer to her face. Long arms came out of the darkness and reached towards Sakura. Its hair was black and it sprawled over her face and hung off of its head as it came closer.
Sakura let out a blood-curdling scream as she fell back and hit against the stretcher that her 'fiancé' was on. The stretcher swung back and crashed into the doors and opened them up. Sakura flew back with the stretcher and fell onto the asphalt. She hit the back of her head on the street and it bounced up and slammed back down. She groaned a bit as she pulled her upper body up. She looked back up and noticed the thing crawling towards her. It's limbs were long and were held back by chains. It was trying to get out of the darkness but couldn't. It let out grunting noises as it tried to get a hold of Sakura, but no luck came. It couldn't get any farther than it had.
"What's happening…" Sakura whimpered in horror as the darkness swallowed the monster up. Then the darkness spread towards her and sucked her into it as well.
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He watched her as she slept peacefully. Her long auburn hair was messy, but it had every reason to be. She had purple bags under her eyes. He assumed from all the stress that's been going on in that little head of hers. She rolled over onto her stomach and sighed into the pillow. She started to talk in her sleep, but it was muffled. He sat on the bed and continued to watch her.
Sakura opened her eyes as she saw darkness. She felt something soft against her face and figured it was a pillow. She lifted herself up and sat up in bed. She rubbed her eyes and let out another sigh.
"You're finally awake." A deep voice startled her. She jumped in bed and yelped. She looked where the voice was coming from and saw a man. His hair was similar to hers; messy and brown. But there was a difference; his had no reason to be. It just made him look gorgeous. His deep brown eyes held humor as he watched her reaction. He had on a black long sleeve shirt with blue jeans that had a hint of brown to it.
"You're-but you were! You're supposed-" Sakura tried to make sense, but didn't succeed for he had gently put his finger tip against her lips to shut her up. He leaned dangerously closer to her. Her cheeks flushed a light pink as he did so.
"That wasn't me." He said simply as he brought back his head and stood up. He had his back facing her. He tilted his head to the side to look at her for a moment. "I'll give you the rest of the day to relax, but I'll be back later tonight to explain things further." With that he left the room.
Sakura just gaped at his retreating figure. So many thoughts were running through her mind, she didn't even know what she was thinking! She let out a frustrating scream and jumped off the bed to catch up with the man of her dreams who claimed that he wasn't.
As she reached the outside of the room she noticed that she was in her own apartment. That meant that Tomoyo would be here too! She ran across the small hallway and burst into Tomoyo's room.
"Tomoyo!" Sakura shouted as she scanned the room, but no one was there. She ran back down to the other side and jumped down the stairs and slipped as she reached the last step. She let out a squeak as she landed on her bum. She stood up slowly and rubbed her butt. "I really need to be more careful." Sakura said as she walked into the kitchen.
"Hey I-" Tomoyo was sitting at the table, her back facing Sakura. She was sitting awfully stiff too. Sakura didn't even see her shoulders moving up and down to show that she was breathing. She walked slowly to her friend with her arm stretched out a bit. She set her hand on her shoulder to let her know that she was behind her.
"Tomoyo, what's wrong?" Sakura asked as she waited for a response. But there was nothing, no grunt, no words, and no noise. Sakura began to worry. She didn't like this one bit.
"Tomoyo this isn't funny. Today has been weird and I need your sympathy!" Sakura didn't want to seem so conceited, but she didn't like the way things were going today. There was still nothing. Sakura tried to pull Tomoyo to face her, but she wouldn't budge. It felt as if she weighed a ton. Sakura walked a little further to face Tomoyo and gasped at what she saw. Tomoyo had a blank look on and she wasn't moving. She was frozen.
"Tomoyo!" Sakura screamed as she saw her friend in such a state. She knelt down and started to cry. She put her hands to her face and let it all out. She cried for her friend. Then a thought struck her. She looked up at Tomoyo and glared.
"It has something to do with that man!" Sakura stood up and ran up the stairs to get to her room. "I'll find him and figure everything out!"
Sakura dressed into something appropriate. She wore blue jeans, a black tank top, and a black zip up sweater. She retied her hair into a ponytail and walked back downstairs. She slipped on her regular shoes and walked out the door.
Outside was pitch black and the lampposts were all lit up. The stars and the moon lit up the sky as well and gave it an eerie feeling. Everything was quiet and odd. There was no breeze and no sign of life. Nothing felt right. She looked around to find some hint to figure out which way he went. She walked out into the street and as she walked she felt droplets hit against her skin. She looked carefully, because she didn't hear rain. Then she realized she was walking through the rain. She waved her hand through the air to move the droplets. Everything was frozen, as if time had stopped and only she could move.
All of a sudden the streetlights went out one by one. Then black shadows started to emerge from the street and surround her. There must have been over a hundred of them. They all transformed into devil creatures and they started to close in on her. Sakura started to freak out and did the only sensible thing she could think of. Scream. She screamed as loud as she could. She didn't know what to do. There was nothing she could do. She had nothing to fight the demons off with.
Her phone started to ring. 'Great, what perfect timing!' Sakura thought as she quickly took it out with shaky hands. The light lit up around her and the demons began to screech as the light hit some of them. The ones that had light on them disappeared into nothing. Sakura gasped at what happened. She raised her cell phone higher to scare off the demons. It only worked for the ones that were close enough, but she wasn't complaining, it was saving her butt.
The light only worked for so long. More and more demons came back and overpowered her. She crouched down as more and more came. She covered her face as they started scratching and jumping onto of her. Muffled screams of pain came from her as she tried to protect herself with her arms.
'This is it..' she thought sadly. But something happened; there was no more scratching or no more weight on her. She opened her eyes and looked around to see what happened. They were all gone. The street lamps lit back up and the rain started pouring on her.
"Need a hand?" someone said to her. She looked up once more and saw the very person she was looking for. He was holding his hand out for her. She took it and he hoisted her up. She looked at him in disbelief. Just a second ago she was about to be killed and then all of a sudden he appears to save the day again and acts as if it wasn't anything at all.
She glared at him. She raised her hand and was about to slap him, but he grabbed her small fragile wrist just before she could. She gasped.
"How dare you!" She shouted at him, "Who do you think you are!" Sakura asked rudely as she tried to pull her wrist away, but failed miserably. He had a smirk on. That pissed her off even more.
"My name is Syaoran Li." He stated as he pulled her hand to him and kissed the top of it lightly. Sakura blushed lightly, but still was glaring at him. Finally she was able to pull her hand away.
"What the hell is happening to me!" Sakura asked. She folded her arms and waited impatiently for an answer.
"Don't be so rude and try to be patient. There's plenty of time for an explanation, but right now isn't the time or place." Syaoran said as he turned around and started walking away.
"No you don't! Not again!" Sakura said as she reached out for his arm, but just like the demons, he disappeared right before her eyes. She let out another frustrating scream as she kicked a rock that was lying on the street.
"Ugh! I can't believe I ever liked him!" Sakura shouted out into the night. Her throat was becoming sore from all the screaming.
After all the shouting, the windows of the other apartments started to glow. Lights were starting to turn on. People opened up their doors to see what all the commotion was.
"Hey! What's all the racket!" someone shouted.
"What's going on?" someone else asked.
"Sakura!" a familiar voice said. Sakura turned around and saw Tomoyo standing at their door. She ran to her best friend and hugged her. "Sakura, what's wrong? What happened? You're bleeding!" Tomoyo pulled her friend away and saw that her clothes were ripped and torn as well. "Sakura! Answer me!" Tomoyo yelled as she grabbed a hold of Sakura's shoulders. But Sakura could only smile. Her best friend was okay. Everything was okay now. Forget about that stupid Syaoran Li that she had the hots for. Evyerthing was okay now.
"I'm fine. Everything is okay now." Sakura said truthfully.
"But what happened to your clothes?" Tomoyo asked again.
"Oh.." Sakura had to think up another lie. What could she say? 'Oh I was attacked by demons? By animals?' No that wouldn't do. "I was attacked..by some guy. He..he tried to rape me…" Sakura lied. She saw Tomoyo's eyes widen.
"What!" Tomoyo shouted again. She pulled Sakura inside and shut the door. She locked it and turned back to Sakura. "You're going to get cleaned up and then you're going to tell me all about it!" Tomoyo pushed her friend up the stairs.
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Sakura was sitting at her desk inside her office. The door was shut and the blinds were down so no one could see her. She let out a sigh as she looked down at the paper work she had to do. She was tired from yesterday. It took her forever to reassure Tomoyo that she was okay and nothing serious happened. Sakura didn't know how much she could take before she'd go insane, if she wasn't insane already.
She took a look at the clock on her desk for the hundredth time. She still had 5 hours to go until she could go home. 1 hour until she could go on break for lunch. And who knows how long until she could go back to her normal life. All she knew was that she wasn't going running anymore. She'd have to find some other type of exercise.
As she was organizing some paper work, or trying, there was a knock on the door. She put down the paper and looked up. She groaned. She was hoping to be alone for the rest of the 5 hours.
"Come in." Sakura said politely as she waited to see what they wanted done. She saw her boss walk in. He was tall and was going bald. He had a kind smile, but had the business look.
"Hey." He said briefly as he walked in part way. "I have some good news."
"What's that?" Sakura stood up with a curious look. She could use some good news right now. Hopefully a raise, or a promotion.
"We have a new member added to our business." He said as he moved aside to let the new employee be seen.
Sakura went dead. 'Great! This I just what I needed! Someone else to watch over.' Sakura thought as she felt a headache coming on. She forced a smile.
"And who is—" Sakura froze. The very person who walked in was the very last person she wanted to see. Right before her was the same smirk she dreaded.
"His name is Syaoran Li." Her boss said delightfully.
'Oh no' Sakura thought.
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Alright, there's chapter 3! I hope you guys liked it! Please tell me in the reviews. Thanks for reading!
Lady Enyce
