Comments of Meso:

Chibi Mistress: Thanks. :) I try to add in a little humor sometimes. I make on making a chapter once the story is finished wiht a bunch of bloopers.

bladebreakers: Lol. I'm not sure THAT will happen, I'm a little fond of Warren since I made him up. True, it's not a good place to be. It gets worse.

So read on! And review!

Chapter 7: Begin

Sakura's eyes widened, and she instantly stepped back. Maroon embers enveloped the entire hallway, a thick gray smoke getting bigger. Sakura screamed the first thing that came to her mind.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura waited for a reply. But nothing came. "Tomoyo!" There was still no answer. The smoke was starting to gag Sakura. Her eyes watered. And what if Tomoyo was in there somewhere? It would be too late…

Suddenly, a jet of water whizzed by Sakura and started to fight the flames. Sakura looked back and saw Syaoran. A royal blue dragon was by his side, still shooting out a single stream of water.

"Kinofoto…I feed yer helf!" Syaoran cried with his hand over his mouth over his hand and his nose. Even though it was muffled, Sakura understood: he needed help. She gathered the magic inside of her, and soon she had a pink staff in her hands.

"RELEASE, WATER!" Sakura cried. A blue human-like creature appeared from the star at the top of Sakura's staff. The Water Card shot water from her webbed hands. Being magical, the water instantly killed whichever flames it landed upon.

Syaoran gave Sakura a thumbs-up, which made her blush. And soon, the flames were extinguished.

"You should get rid of that extra smoke," Syaoran suggested. Sakura nodded.

"RELEASE! WINDY!" Another creature emerged from Sakura's staff, and using her wind powers, the smoke was clear in an instant. Then Sakura looked at Syaoran with urgency.

"Go and get her. I'll check the other floors," With that, the two split ways. While Sakura ran down the hallway, quickly poking her head into all of the classrooms, she pondered about what Syaoran had said when they were extinguishing the fire. He had called her Kinomoto and not Sakura. What had she done? She should have forgiven him when she had the chance. Now he probably didn't like her anymore…

But Sakura was interrupted from her thoughts when she had finished searching the hallway.

Tomoyo wasn't in any of the rooms.

But that wasn't possible. Sakura looked again, this time checking closets and under desks. No Tomoyo.

"NO! Where is she?" Sakura shouted, on the verge of tears. She ran up the stairs to the third and final floor. Tomoyo probably ran up there when she saw the fire. She probably tried to take cover. Sakura looked inside all of the classrooms very carefully. But at the end of the hallway…Once again, no Tomoyo.

Sakura fell onto her knees. Where could she have gone?

"Sakura! Took me long enough, where the heck were you!" Sakura turned around and saw Chiharu.

"Chiharu!" Sakura cried. "I'm so glad to see you! This whole place is empty!"

"Well duh! There was a fire, you expect to all get burned to a crisp?" she asked irritably. Sakura shook her head and stood up. "Now let's get out of this place," Both of them walked back down the hallway and down the stairs, all the way to the first floor. All that time, Sakura was thinking about Tomoyo. And all that time, Chiharu was thinking about how the fire had suddenly disappeared.

When they got outside, Sakura was surprised to see the whole school standing out in the yard already. But it made sense.

"Good job getting Kinomoto, Chiharu," one teacher said. Chiharu muttered something and walked off. The teacher, however, glared at Sakura before walking away.

Sakura didn't care. She ran through the crowd of students, who all yelled and tried to trip her as she went by. She looked at everyone, seeing familiar faces, but not the face that she wanted to see.

"TOMOYO!" Sakura screamed. "TOMOYO!" Still no answer.

"Stop being so loud, will you? I bet that girl died in the fire. No use looking for her," said one of Warren's friends (who wasn't suspended yet somehow). Sakura looked at him, feeling as cold as ice.

"You're right," Sakura said, he voice trembling. Suddenly, a fist slammed Warren's friend right in his jaw, causing him to fall over. It was Syaoran who hit him. Sakura looked up at him, tears running down her face.

"He's a lying jerk. Tomoyo's around here somewhere. Somewhere." Syaoran said certainly. Sakura didn't believe him. "Anyway, Tomoyo's gotta be somewhere on the school grounds,"

"No she can't," came a chilling voice from above. Syaoran and Sakura looked up. A person was standing on a strong branch of a tree, high above them. They had long pinkish-white hair and a navy blue cloak. A sun was stitched onto the right arm of the cloak, a crescent moon on the left. Even though their face was shrouded in shadow, Sakura could see a lion's paw where their right hand should be.

And in the arms of this person was an unconscious Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura shouted.

"Eclipse!" Syaoran yelled. Everyone looked at them, confused. They looked up into the tree but saw nothing.

"Are you guys on--" one person started to say, but she was cut off when Mr. Terada came up behind her and pulled her away by the ear.

"What are you two going on about? Tomoyo died in that fire. And it's broad daylight, there's no eclipse," Rika said. The people without magic obviously couldn't see him in the tree. And he had cloaked Tomoyo somehow, too.

Eclipse just smiled, his face still not visible. And just like that, a sphere of shadow appeared in his left hand. And he tossed it carelessly into the crowd of students below.

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"RELEASE! SHIELD!" Sakura cried, not caring if all the people around her could see. A pink cover surrounded all of the students as the attack bounced off of it and back at Eclipse. The sphere hit the tree, making it explode. However, Eclipse was gone before the attack had hit.

He was gone with Tomoyo.

Sakura didn't care if the whole school had seen her use magic. Tomoyo was gone. And that was just it.

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"Sakura, calm down! We'll get Tomoyo back and defeat Eclipse before he can do more harm, I promise," Kero told an angry and sobbing Sakura. Sakura didn't respond. Syaoran reached out to pat her back sympathetically when he remembered that Sakura was only Kinomoto now. She didn't love him. Why even try?

"Kinomoto…" Syaoran said sadly. Then he stood up and Sakura turned her head. "Sitting around crying isn't going to do anything. I don't know about you, but I'm going to try my hardest to find Eclipse." He said, his mood completely changing.

"How dare you talk to Sakura that way after what--" Kero objected, Sakura cut him off.

"He's right. But what should I do?" Sakura asked, wiping away her tears.

"Try and sense him. There should be a hint of Clow's aura since he was sealed by him, but mostly someone else's," Kero said. Sakura closed her eyes. She could feel Kero, Syaoran, Yue, her father…And…possibly…

"I think I have him," Sakura said fiercely.

"Then let's get him."

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Who would have thought that Eclipse would be in such an easy place to find? Penguin Park. It looked like it would be raining soon, so the place was empty except for Kero, Syaoran, and Sakura. Sakura, for one, was ready to fight.

"Eclipse! Come out now!" Sakura yelled.

"Up there," Syaoran whispered. Sakura looked up to see him in a tree once again. He was still holding Tomoyo, who was awake and looked completely frightened. Sakura clutched her staff tighter.

Would it all come down to this?

"Get down here with Tomoyo so we can defeat you!" Syaoran shouted. Then he realized what he said and blushed.

"Quite the man, aren't you little one?" came Eclipse's cold voice. "We will prove this now." With that, Eclipse dropped down from the tree, still holding Tomoyo.

"Now or never!" Kero shouted. And he was right, for soon the battle would begin.