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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...
Eriol pushed past all of the evil people, and made his way towards where Sakura and Syaoran were.
"Are you okay?" he asked them. They both nodded in reply. The evil people closed in on them once again, as they all tried to fight them off. They were all still not in full power and seemed to be losing all their energy by the second.
Sakura collapsed to the ground on her knees, lacking lots of energy and panting hard. Syaoran ran towards her, but was blocked off by two other evil people. A shadow loomed over Sakura, as she looked up towards her doom.
The person held up a sword, ready to kill Sakura.
"Good bye, Card Mistress," said the voice. Sakura's head snapped up, recognizing the voice.
"TOMOYO!"
Chapter 25
A single tear leaked from Sakura's emerald green eyes, as she looked up towards her best friend who was about to kill her once and for all.
"Tomoyo..." she repeated quietly. "Please don't...'
Tomoyo raised the sword behind her shoulder, about to swing.
Sakura was too weak to call upon her magic, or to run away or somehow dodge the attack. She was on her knees, completely useless.
"SAKURA!" shouted a voice belonging to Syaoran.
"It's too late..." whispered Sakura to no one in particular.
Sakura bowed her head. Locks of auburn hair fell over her eyes, covering them from sight. A few more teardrops fell to the ground.
Tomoyo swung the sword down. It all appeared in slow motion. The sword came towards Sakura, as Syaoran used up all his remaining energy to run towards Sakura. He leapt and pushed her to the side, but the sword slashed his shoulder as he did so.
They both fell to the ground. Syaoran's shoulder was bleeding badly and he fainted. Sakura crawled weakly to his side.
"Why?" she said to him quietly, even though she knew that he wouldn't be able to hear her talking. "Why did you sacrifice yourself for me? Why?"
Tears filled her eyes. She didn't even try to blink them back; instead, she let them fall freely.
"You meant so much to me," whispered Sakura to the limp body of Syaoran, placing her hand on his own.
She closed her eyes and transferred all of her remaining power into Syaoran, hoping that his arm would be at least a little bit healed. She fell unconscious, having lost all her energy.
"SAKURA!" screamed Eriol. "SYAORAN!"
He blocked off more people, trying to make his way towards them.
"Damn people," he cursed silently to himself. "Damn evil person who keeps doing this."
With one last and final blow, he ran towards Syaoran and Sakura. He knelt down and felt for Syaoran's pulse.
'Good,' he thought. 'He still has one, but he's losing blood really quickly.'
Then he leaned towards Sakura and felt for her pulse. It was very, very faint and was barely there. Anger flooded through Eriol, as he saw his cousin and Sakura, who he felt was like a sister to him, on the ground, looking lifeless.
'I'll make the people who did this pay!' he promised to himself. He let all the anger inside of him flow out, as he shouted into the air.
All of the people, who were under control, felt all his anger and all their eyes flashed back to normal. But it faded again in two seconds.
With Meiling
"Ryu," said Meiling gently. "Please listen to me."
Ryu's eyes flickered once more. Meiling seemed to have a great effect on him.
"You're under control," she said to him, even though she knew that the real Ryu wouldn't hear her.
Around ten metres away, she heard angry shout. She whizzed around and saw Eriol, standing next to two bodies, which were lying on the ground, without any sign of movement.
Her face paled as all the colour drained from her. She was worried to death.
"Xiao Lang ... Sakura..." she whispered. "Please be okay..."
Everyone's eyes flickered back to normal again, but then flickered back once again.
"Ryu," she cried urgently, holding onto his hand. "Please. I – I love you!"
She glanced at his face once more and tore away from him, to see if Syaoran and Sakura were okay.
Ryu's eyes slowly adjusted back to normal. He blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes.
"What's going on?"
With the others
"ERIOL!" she screamed, as she ran towards him. "Are they okay? What happened to them? They're not dead, are they? Why did this happen to them? How could this be? When will they get better? W –" she said all in one breath.
"MEILING!" cried Eriol, shaking her by the shoulders. "Shut up! You're blabbing again!"
"Oh right...But are they okay?"
Eriol looked uncomfortable.
"I can assure you that they're not dead," he started.
Meiling let out a sigh of relief.
"But..." continued Eriol, not really wanting to say any more than what he just did.
"But what?" asked Meiling, biting her bottom lip, in worry.
Everyone's eyes flashed back to normal and back to blank again, except Ryu of course, since he has already snapped out of the spell.
"Syaoran has lost lots of blood," said Eriol. "But besides that, he's fine. But Sakura..."
Meiling's face paled even more.
"What happened to Sakura?" she asked in a hushed voice.
"She – Her pulse...is well...very faint..." replied Eriol.
"How?" shrieked Meiling. "What made her so weak?"
Eriol shook her head.
"I – I don't know," he said in defeat.
Meiling felt tears come to her eyes, but she held them back, refusing to let them fall to the ground.
"This whole thing makes me want to tear myself up into little pieces!" she screamed, absolutely furious.
"Calm down, Mei," said Eriol gently, patting her shoulder. "It's going to be okay."
"OKAY?" screamed Meiling. "HOW CAN IT BE OKAY? XIAO LANG IS LIKE MY CLOSEST COUSIN besides you of course, AND SAKURA IS LIKE A SISTER TO ME!"
"Chill out Meiling!" cried Eriol. "Sakura was like a sister to me too, but freaking out like this isn't going to help!"
No matter what Eriol said to her, Meiling wouldn't calm down.
"ERIOL!" she screamed. "HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN? IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO EITHER OF THEM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'D DO!"
Everyone's eyes flashed back to normal for a few moments and then turned back again. Eriol narrowed his eyes at them and noticed that they were affected by other people's emotions. Meiling was about to calm down, when Eriol decided to work her up again.
"THEN JUST LEAVE THEM THERE TO DIE!" he screamed at her, hoping that she'll take out all of her anger out on him.
"What did you just say?" she asked, clenching her teeth.
Eriol shrugged. "Leave them there to die?"
"ERIOL! HOW COULD YOU? I THOUGHT THEY MEANT SOMETHING TO YOU! I THOUGHT THAT SAKURA WAS LIKE A SISTER TO YOU TOO, BUT NOW YOU DON'T CARE? HOW COULD YOU?"
Ryu, after returning back to normal, walked up to them to see what Meiling was screaming about.
"What's up?" he asked.
"I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S UP!" screamed Meiling, hysterically. "SAKURA AND SYAORAN ARE BOTH OUT COLD AND YOUR PAL ERIOL HERE, DOESN'T EVEN CARE IF THEY DIED!"
Ryu's jaw dropped.
"Eriol," he said, looking at him as if they were crazy. "How could you, man?"
Eriol threw his hands up in defense.
"Not my problem," he replied coolly, backing away.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM?" roared Meiling and Ryu in unison. "IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM, WHAT DO YOU CARE ABOUT? CHEESE?"
"That sounds about right!"
"ARGH! ERIOL! HOW CAN YOU BE THINKING OF CHEESE AT THIS MOMENT?"
"Well...I was actually thinking about pink iced donuts, to be honest..."
"PINK ICED DONUTS? TWO OF OUR BEST FRIENDS ARE OUT COLD AND THE REST ARE UNDER CONTROL BY SOME FREAK AND ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS PINK ICED DONUTS?"
"Yep!" replied Eriol, grinning. His plan was going well.
"DO YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT THE REST OF OUR CLASS AT ALL? CHIHARU? RIKA? JOSH? NAOKO? YAMAZAKI? TOMOYO?"
Eriol scratched his head and then replied, "Nope!"
"IF IT WASN'T FOR MY SHOULDER, I WOULD'VE STRANGLED YOU RIGHT HERE AND NOW!" cried Meiling. "So, I'll get Ryu to do it for me!"
"You do that," said Eriol cheerfully. (LoL. I always say that! )
"ARGH! YOU DISGUST ME ERIOL. DO YOU KNOW THAT? I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I ACTUALLY CONSIDERED YOU AS A FRIEND, LET ALONE A BEST FRIEND!"
With Ryu and Meiling blowing out all their anger, everyone was repeatedly in and out of the evil's control, which was exactly what Eriol had wanted to happen.
"Well...too bad you already did."
"THAT'S IT HIIRAGISAWA! YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" cried Ryu, attempting to tackle him down.
"I don't think that's a very wise idea," pointed out Eriol. Ryu still tackled him anyway and fell down in the mud. Eriol laughed.
"I told you." Ryu clenched his teeth together.
"SHUT UP!" roared Ryu, getting up and started strangling him. Eriol just kept laughing hysterically.
Everyone slowly snapped out of their trance, just as Ryu did.
"RYU!" cried Chiharu. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ERIOL?"
Ryu immediately stopped trying to Eriol, who was still laughing.
"You did it!" he congratulated Ryu and Meiling, patting them on the back. "Well done!"
"Did what?" asked Meiling and Ryu confusedly.
"Broke the spell."
"WE DID THAT? HOW?"
"By taking out all of your emotions – AKA anger – out on me."
"YOU WERE USING US?"
"Well...not exactly...if i had told you, you wouldn't have let out all your anger..." said Eriol, scratching his head.
"YOU ARE SO DEAD HIIRAGISAWA!"
"Meep..." (Another one of my favourite sayings! As well as POP! LoL)
With Syaoran and Sakura
Sakura slowly stirred. She sat up for a start and stretched her arms.
"Syaoran!" she gasped. "Oh I remember now!"
'He's losing too much blood. What has everyone been doing?' she thought to herslf.
She carefully ripped the sleeve off her long sleeve shirt and wet if with water. She then gently dabbed the cut on Syaoran's arm. Syaoran twitched slightly, but was still unconscious. She then ripped the other sleeve off and bandaged it around his arm, putting pressure on the cut so that the blood flow will slow down.
Eriol and Tomoyo came running towards them.
"OH MY GOSH!" cried Tomoyo, as tears filled her eyes. "THANK GOD YOU'RE OKAY! ERIOL TOLD ME EVERYTHING! I CAN'T BELIEVE I NEARLY KILLED YOU! I WOULD'VE NEVER FORGIVEN MYSELF!"
Tomoyo gently hugged Sakura, as she hugged her back.
"It's okay Tomoyo," said Sakura. "It wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was!" cried Tomoyo, bursting into tears. "It was my fault!"
After seeing her best friend burst into tears, Sakura did as well.
"Oh Tomoyo!"
Eriol rolled his eyes.
"What is with girls and crying about something of no importance?"
"YOU'RE GOING DOWN HIIRAGISAWA!"
"Meep..."
TBC
For once I haven't ended it in a cliffhanger! Yay! Anyway, hope it was good and please review! Thank you to everyone who constantly review for me! You guys are the best! -cheers and claps- Anyway, laters!
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