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…Something… Flashbacks
"…" Speech
… Actions
Italics Thoughts and accented words
# … # Songs and POV's
(…) My notes
… Time and scene changes
Flashback from the last chapter...
He held onto the chain and dangled it in front of him. Then he closed his eyes and started to mutter a chant. He was about to finish it off when someone approached him from behind.
"May I ask what you're doing here, dear?" asked a dumpy woman. She was a bit wide in the middle and wore an old dress. She looked like she was the wife of John Wills.
"Who are you?" he asked automatically, as he stuffed the chain into his pocket. He suddenly realized that he was being rude and stopped. "Sorry. I was just looking for the bathroom." The woman nodded understandingly.
"I'm Natalie Wills," she said. "The bathroom is just through that door. I suppose you're from Tomoeda High?" Luke nodded.
"My name is Luke," he said politely. "Thank you for your kindness, Mrs. Wills." He bowed to her and ran through the door. He took out the chain again and continued to mutter the ancient chant of magic. The chain swayed from left to right; a wave of magic rushed past him, ruffling his hair and his eyes flashed red.
Chapter 22
Luke smirked to himself. 'Master is going to be so happy with me after this has finished...' he thought and walked back to find the rest of his class.
"Where have you been?" asked the teacher, furrowing her brow when he got back to where they were standing. "Everyone is waiting for you to start the tour!"
"I'm sorry," Luke replied, bowing his head. "I met Mrs. Natalie Wills on the way and I sort of had a little chat with her."
"Be that as it may, but we have got to start!" said the teacher strictly. "Time won't wait for us!" She walked off to the front of the students and gestured them to follow her.
"Hi Luke," said Sakura, catching up with him. "Where did you go? We were looking for you."
'She was looking for me? Why would she do that?' thought Luke. "Oh I just went to the bathroom, that's all."
"You sure took a long time!" laughed Sakura.
"I ran into someone on the way," he replied casually.
"Oh okay. C'mon Luke, everyone's ahead already. I don't want to miss the tour!" said Sakura, grabbing him by the arm and dragging him off.
# Luke's Point of View #
How can she act so nice to me? She would've suspected something weird about me by now – I sensed it before! After what I'm about to do to them, she'll probably still be nice to me...she's nice to practically anyone, even her enemies! That just doesn't make any sense. Oh great...now she's making me feel guilty for what I'm about to do...GUILTY? What am I thinking? Emotions are weak – they'll only get in the way to supreme power. I have no emotions – I am strong. Emotions only get in the way...They are useless and only weaklings believe in emotions. I have a job to carry out and no emotions are going to get in my way!
# End Luke's Point of View #
When they caught up with everyone else, Sakura let go of Luke's arm and walked over to Tomoyo, Syaoran, Eriol and Meiling.
"What are we looking at now?" she asked, poking her head over Syaoran's shoulder to get a better view. Syaoran blushed from head to toe.
"Animals," he muttered quietly.
"I already know that, silly!" laughed Sakura. "This is a farm – of course we're looking at animals!" Syaoran blushed a deeper red. Suddenly, Sakura sensed a blast of dark energy fly past. Her head jerked up automatically, as did Syaoran's. She immediately pushed past Syaoran and all the other students to get a close look on the animals.
The horses in the paddock were all looking extremely angry about something. Their eyes flared red and they could sense dark energy from inside of them. The whole herd looked as though they were about to charge. They were digging their hooves into the dirt, making dust fly everywhere.
Everyone froze onto the spot. No one had seen such peculiar actions from such gentle creatures before. All the girls who were up close to the fence backed away, scared. The horses began charging at them, well the fence separating them. The horses got faster and faster – there was no way that they could stop now. All the students started to scream hysterically and ran as far as they could away from the horses – Up trees, behind bushes, in the barn, behind each other...you name it. Even the teachers were cowering. Everyone was freaking out, except for Eriol, Syaoran and Sakura. Luke was well camouflaged between trees. Sakura was transfixed at the horses. She couldn't move her feet when she tried to. Her eyes were glued to the horses, which were getting closer and closer as the seconds passed. Eriol had followed Tomoyo to make sure she was safe. Syaoran watched in horror as the horses advanced towards Sakura.
"SAKURA!" he screamed. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" By now, everyone was out of sight, hiding from the evil beasts.
"I CAN'T!" she yelled back at him. "I CAN'T MOVE!" She tried to move her legs again, but they wouldn't budge. Syaoran ran up to her and blocked her from the horses. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU MAD?" she screamed at him.
"No," he replied quietly. He took out his sword and tried to block off the horses with his elemental attacks, but they had no effect on them whatsoever.
"FIRE!" he screamed. Blazing flames shot out and flew towards the horses and went right through them. Syaoran cursed silently.
"LIGHTNING, WATER – COMBINE!" he shouted. Water and lightning combined together and flew towards the horses and once again, they went right through them.
"Elemental attacks don't work, Syaoran." Sakura pointed out. "Don't waste your energy, just run and leave me, otherwise you'll get hurt." Syaoran shook his head.
"No," he said. "I won't leave." The horses got closer and closer and closer and closer and you get the point...
"SYAORAN!" screamed Sakura. "MOVE!" She tried to shove him away, but he wouldn't move. The horses were now five metres away. Syaoran held onto Sakura tightly and closed his eyes, waiting for the hit, while Sakura did the same, but it never came. The both opened their eyes and squinted their eyes. There was something blocking their way from the horses – a barrier of some sort.
"A shield..." murmured Sakura, looking quite surprised. "Did you do that?" she asked him. Syaoran shook his head. Sakura didn't produce the shield from the shield card – it had somehow released by itself, without her telling it to.
"But how...?" she whispered silently to no one in particular. The slightly pink barrier faded away and the horses had disappeared back onto the field.
Behind the shadow of the tree, the carefully hidden Luke cursed silently. 'How could a perfectly foolproof plan not work out? Li was completely powerless to the dark energy and Sakura was unable to call upon her magic. But how could that be possible?'
'Anything is possible...' said a dark voice in his mind.
'M – Master...Pl – Please...I'm sorry...'
'Forgiveness is not a option...' Luke suddenly transported somewhere else.
"Luke," said a voice.
"M – Master," he replied, his voice slightly shaking.
"Do you remember what you are supposed to do?" asked the icy cold voice.
"Y – yes."
"What is it then?"
"Destroy the emotions of Kinomoto Sakura and Li Syaoran and anything that gets in the way of getting to that..." Luke replied, unsteadily.
"Yes...and have you achieved that yet?" came the voice.
"N – not yet M – Master," said Luke. "It will be done soon..."
"Let's hope so...for your own sake..."
"Yes Master."
"This is not counted as forgiveness...the next time you fail a plan, there are no more chances."
"Yes Master," said Luke, bowing his head. With a flick of his hand, Luke transported back to the farm.
"Are you alright?" asked Syaoran to Sakura. Sakura nodded.
"Just a little shaken, that's all. Are you?" she replied.
"Yeah."
"CLASS!" called the teacher. "COME HERE IMMEDIATELY!" Everyone immediately came out.
"This here is the horse paddock," explained John Wills. "If you like, here are some sugar cubes so you can feed them." A few girls immediately stepped forward to get some.
"They're so cute!" squealed one of them.
"I guess they don't remember anything," muttered Sakura to Syaoran. Syaoran nodded.
"No one does, except maybe Eriol," he whispered back to her. "But that's a good thing." Sakura nodded.
"Come on!" she said. "Let's go feed the pretty horses!" Syaoran sweat-dropped. Sakura grabbed his hand and pulled him towards John to get a sugar cube.
"Psst," hissed Tomoyo. "Look how sweet that is!" she said to Eriol, as Syaoran started to blush.
"This is going to be one good field trip..." murmured Eriol mischievously.
"What do you mean?" asked Tomoyo curiously. Eriol looked at her with a special glint in his eye that made Tomoyo understand precisely what he meant. They both smirked evilly.
"Here are the monkeys," explained John Wills. Sakura was standing next to Syaoran near the middle of the class.
"Ready?" asked Tomoyo. Eriol nodded and smiled. "Okay. Go!" Eriol made his way through the crowd towards where Sakura and Syaoran were standing and "accidentally" bumped Sakura into him, causing her to fall. As soon as he made contact, he made his way quickly back to Tomoyo.
As soon as Sakura started to fall, Syaoran caught her just in time. Their eyesight made contact with each other – emerald and amber. Syaoran's usual cold eyes softened as Sakura's emerald eyes mesmerized him. They gazed intently at each other for a few minutes, completely forgetting their surroundings. The only thing that mattered was that they had each other.
"KAWAII!" squealed Tomoyo, holding up her video camera. Sakura and Syaoran pulled away, blushing madly.
"Tomoyo!" hissed Eriol. "You just ruined it!"
"Gomen, gomen," she apologized. "But I couldn't help it!" Eriol sighed.
"Okay, okay..." Tomoyo just smiled.
"Now," said John. "Who wants to go see the snake?" The boys in their class all cheered.
"Me! Me! Me!" they all chanted together. Some girls started whimpering, while some just rolled their eyes at the boys' immaturity.
"What type of snake is it?" shouted a boy from the back.
"Well," began John. "I'm not quite sure actually. It is a rare species of snake. It's jet black in colour with bright green eyes. It's very long and big." He finished somewhat lamely.
"Can we hurry up?" called out someone rudely.
"Yes, yes," replied John, not at all bothered at his rudeness. "This way." He waved a hand at the class, gesturing for them to follow.
They reached a small enclosure with trees and wild plants growing everywhere in it. All they could see was the colour of jungle green and bits of purple and pink, which were the flowers that were growing there.
"Where is it?" asked the impatient boy. "I don't see it anywhere!"
"It's probably hiding somewhere where it's dark," replied John. "It'll come out soon." The boy rolled his eyes.
"Are you sure you even have a snake?" he asked. "Coz if you're embarrassed that you don't have such a cool creature at a boring farm, you don't have to –" His voice was cut off as soon as he saw a mass of a long shadow looming in the tall grasses.
"Wicked!" he exclaimed, getting in for a closer look. Katrina screamed.
"Eew!" she exclaimed. "That thing is so revolting!"
"It's called a snake," said Chiharu sarcastically. "Snakes are long and they slither around."
"Duh!" cried Katrina. "I already knew that!" she scanned her nails.
"It didn't look like you did," muttered Chiharu, as everyone sniggered. Katrina glared at her.
"Bitch," she said, lowering her voice so that no one else could hear. Chiharu rolled her eyes.
"It's all about you isn't it?" she cried. "For the last time, stop talking about yourself!" Katrina gave her one last glare and stormed off with her two followers. Chiharu smirked.
"That shows her not to mess with the power of Chiharu Mihara!"
Luke crept off unnoticed into the shadows, again. He took out the miniature sword chain and started muttering a chant again.
As everyone was looking at the snake, it's green eyes suddenly turned red.
"W- what happened to it?" asked Sakura shakily, as she clutched onto Syaoran's arm automatically.
"I don't know..." replied Syaoran quietly. Sakura looked over to Tomoyo.
"Tomoyo..." said Sakura. "Are you okay? You look pale..." Tomoyo turned around to face her. Her eyes were no longer bright and full of life; they were blank and lifeless.
"T – Tomoyo?" asked Sakura, taking a step closer to her. "What's the matter?"
"It's not Tomoyo," warned Eriol. "Don't go any nearer to her!"
"But I have to help her," persisted Sakura. "She's my best friend." Eriol shot a warning glance at Syaoran and he grabbed onto Sakura's wrist.
"Syaoran!" she cried. "Let go of me! I've got to help Tomoyo! The s – snake!" Syaoran and Eriol's heads turned immediately towards the snake enclosure. Sure enough the door was wide open and the black snake slithered out of it. It eyes flashed dangerously.
"Sakura –" said Syaoran. "Don't." Everyone in the class turned to face them. They all seemed to be standing in straight lines with the snake lying in front of them. They looked like an army from a fantasy story with a deadly snake leading them. All their eyes were blank and showed no emotion whatsoever.
"What happened to everyone?" asked Sakura, backing away slowly. "Why are all their eyes blank?" The snake hissed dangerously. Everyone surrounded them; the three of them were trapped in a circle of all the people in their class, including their supervising teacher and John.
The snake hissed again, flicking its tongue. It's hiss sounded remotely like the word: 'Strike'.
"Hey that sounded like the word 'Strike'!" exclaimed Eriol.
"It probably is then," replied Syaoran, shrugging casually.
Everyone turned to face them and raised their hand out facing out towards them, looking like they're about to blast a power ball at them.
Suddenly, long, vine-like snakes came flying out of the palm of their hands, shooting directly at them like never ending ropes of death.
TBC
That's it for chapter 22! Hope you enjoyed the story so far! And sorry for the long wait between chapters...I'll try to update sooner, but I just don't seem to feel like typing it up the past few weeks, so sorry about that...Anyway, don't forget to REVIEW!
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