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Chapter 6: Reno Eclipse
Sakura sighed deeply. She couldn't shove it aside any longer. She knew it would come, just…Did it have to hurt so badly? All over the weekend, she had pretty much forgotten with all the news about a third guardian…But now she was back at school and she would have to see him.
Li. Syaoran.
Sakura stepped through the door of her classroom. And gasped.
Chaos, everywhere. Yamazaki was screaming at Chiharu at the top of his lungs, Warren and his best friend were trying to pound each other into a pulp, Tomoyo was hiding in a corner…
"What's going on!" Sakura shouted frantically. Tomoyo ran over to Sakura, beaming.
"It's Eclipse, it's got to be," she hissed in Sakura's ear. Actually, it was more of a whine. Sakura told Tomoyo about Eclipse, of course, but not Syaoran…Of course…
"What are we going to do?" Sakura asked Tomoyo.
"Nothing. It's the end…" Tomoyo answered. Then she started crying.
Suddenly, a cry of, "SHUT UP!" rang throughout the classroom. The shout had come from Mr. Terada, who was standing in the doorway. Everyone immediately shut up and sat down, except for Warren and his friend who were still wriggling on the floor.
"WARREN, KAZUHARU! YOU ARE SUSPENDED!" Mr. Terada roared. Warren and his friend looked up in shock, but with one glare from their irate teacher, they left the classroom.
It was pretty much like that for the rest of the day, which was awful. However, one good thing had come of all of this: Sakura hadn't seen Syaoran all day. Maybe all of the madness had driven him away. But then at lunch…She saw him. And he was walking towards her. What would she do?
"Tomoyo, it's Syaoran! We've got to go!" Sakura hissed. She grabbed a weepy Tomoyo by the arm and walked away. Her attempt to escape was in vain, when she realized that someone had grabbed her shoulder. Sakura turned her head. It was Syaoran.
"Let me go!" Sakura cried, and she tried to slip out of his grip. It didn't work.
"Sakura…I know that you're trying to be strong for everyone, especially seeing how crazy everything has been…But I can see it…How much I…I hurt you that day. So I've decided to…move back to Hong Kong. I don't want to make you sad anymore," Sakura stopped trying to run away. She looked up at Syaoran. She wanted to tell him that she didn't want him to leave. That she had forgiven him, and that she wanted to be with him. But nothing came out.
"Just wanted to tell you," Syaoran said after a while, and he started to walk away. Tomoyo nudged Sakura.
"Syaoran, WAIT!" Sakura shouted. Syaoran stopped and turned around. Sakura ran towards him.
"Er…You, shouldn't go to Hong Kong," Sakura said. Syaoran looked at her inquisitively. "Because I need your help. With something. Something magical. Um, I'll tell you about it after school,"
"Um, okay," Syaoran said. With that, a slightly disappointed Syaoran walked away.
"A good start, Sakura," Tomoyo stated. "But if you keep detouring from the truth, someone else might get to Syaoran first. Or he might die before you can even tell him." Sakura just stared at her friend. Thankfully, the bell rang, summoning the students inside. Sakura still couldn't believe it.
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"A third guardian? And you're not sure about it, either?" Syaoran asked. Syaoran was glad that at least Sakura hadn't lied about telling him about the magical thing that was going on.
"No, but that's got to be it. The Eclipse."
"But I thought that this creation was weak! How could it possibly be possessing everyone if it's so weak?"
"It might have gotten stronger somehow. I mean, it did overcome its own master…" Syaoran looked Sakura straight into the eyes.
"Sakura, you need to try and have a vision. Eriol said you could if you wanted to, and now is clearly the time." Syaoran had a good point. Sakura closed her eyes and gathered the magic within her. Her head felt warm as the magic gathered there. And soon, she was in a totally different world…
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BAM! Something, or someone, had darted to the ground from the gray sky. A great splash of thick mud rose from the ground.
"Have you given up?" came a booming voice from the sky. Sakura looked up. The person in the sky was Clow Reed. He looked younger, and his usually smiling face was emotionless. His sun staff was by his side, his navy blue cloak flapping in the fierce wind.
Sakura turned to where something had crashed. Someone was rising, completely covered in mud. They had long hair, they were tall, and they had a lion's paw on their right hand.
Eclipse.
"I'll never give up to a filthy human who thinks that they can control us!" Eclipse screamed. Clow looked at Eclipse sadly.
"I told you; I will take you in and take care of you. I know I must be hard to trust, seeing how your old Master treated you. But I am a different man. Someone who can be trusted," Clow said. As he spoke, he waved his hand, making the mud instantly disappear from Eclipse's clothing. Eclipse looked at Clow in fear.
"N-no…I SAID NO!" Eclipse screamed and shot a golden beam out of his human palm. Sakura gasped. However, Clow only held up his hand, darkness surrounding it. The golden beam was instantly sucked in by it.
"Reno, I am trying to talk sense into you. Please, just--" But a dark sphere appeared under Clow's hovering feet, sucking him into it. Clow gasped as his body started disappearing into it.
"NO!" Sakura shouted. She ran forward, but no one seemed to see her.
"See, Clow? I can destroy you, just like I did my old Master," Eclipse (or rather Reno) said, a crazed expression on his pale face.
Sakura could see Clow muttering something under his breath, his body still disappearing. Suddenly, a golden ring appeared under Reno, who was gasping in shock.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME!" Reno screamed. The golden circle emitted a bright white light that swallowed up Reno. Sakura screamed, but no one heard her. Then she heard Reno's voice echoing around the battlefield…
"You have been sealed," Sakura heard Clow say, and then Clow disappeared into the dark sphere…
"NO! MR. REED! COME BACK!" she screamed, still not being heard.
"Sakura…Sakura …Can you hear me?" The present-day Sakura opened her eyes, tears pouring down.
"Wh-what happened?" Syaoran asked, a little scared.
"That can't be the way it ended. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a Kero or a Yue…But that was the end for Reno…until he escaped. With a vengeance." Sakura said. Syaoran still couldn't comprehend.
"We need to have a meeting with Kero, Yue, and Tomoyo. Right now," Sakura said quietly. So with that, Syaoran pulled out his cell phone (specially given to him by Tomoyo's mother) and called everyone for a meeting.
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"He wants revenge on Clow?" Kero asked. Sakura nodded.
"After he got sealed away, his voice echoed. He said, 'I'll get you and every other one of you.' And that was it." Everyone looked at Sakura thoughtfully.
"So he doesn't want revenge on only Clow, but on all Masters after him. That means you, and possibly the next Master. And then he wants revenge on all humans, too!" Tomoyo explained.
"And of course Clow wasn't defeated by that Moon attack. He must of just come right out of whatever vortex he was sucked into," Yue said.
It wasn't too easy getting Yue into the meeting. His temporary form was Yukito, who didn't know about magic. They had told Yuki that they would be cooking all sorts of food for a fair, and that they needed a tester. Of course, Yuki was very willing. But once he got there, Sakura transformed him into the white-haired Moon guardian, Yue.
"So we know for sure that Eclipse is the one making everyone act so strangely. Eclipsing them all. Just for his revenge," Syaoran said.
"And when he comes for me," Sakura started to say, "I'll be ready."
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The next day at school was even worse. Half of Sakura's class had been suspended. Things between her and Syaoran were even more awkward, since they knew that soon Sakura would be attacked and that Syaoran might be going to Hong Kong shortly after.
None of Sakura's friends acted normally. Rika had to take medication since she was so depressed, Tomoyo was always crying over something (even spilled milk), Chiharu was crabby, Yamazaki had become quite a bully, and Naoko never spoke a word (all she did was give people dirty looks).
Sakura was actually starting to hope that Eclipse would attack soon so she could defeat him and make everything normal again. Of course, it wouldn't be so easy…
When Sakura got home, she wrote a letter to Eriol once again. She explained about her look into the past and told of what she happened would be happening in the future. Sakura sent the letter right away and stamped it urgent. That night, when she went to sleep, she had a dream…
She and Syaoran had been rowing in a rowboat. Syaoran decided to take a break from rowing without telling Sakura. So he took a nap, while Sakura struggled. Suddenly, Toya dropped onto Syaoran from the sky, making Syaoran fly across the water and out of sight. Sakura hugged Toya, who had suddenly turned into a horse.
"I've always wanted a pony!" Sakura cried with glee. Then she rode the horse across the across the water. As she was riding it, she saw a live Tomoyo fish! But then a Kero fish came and tried to attack her horse…
And Sakura woke up. No helpful dreams this night…
"Fifteen minutes late, Kiddo," Kero said flatly. There was the usual "Phwee!" and some clunking around. And then Sakura was off to school.
Sakura parked her new bike by the bike rack and walked into her school. But she screamed and stepped back as soon as she got to the second floor.
It was on fire.