Thanks to all of my reviewers! I know it takes a while for me to update…but thanks for hanging in there with me!
Shannon: Thanks for all four reviews! They really inspired me!
Angle-Princess: Thanks!
CrystallinePetals: Thanks, and yes some of the plots is barrowed from Tamora's Lioness Quartet series. I think I put that in the disclaimer….but I will this time!
Roise: Thanks!
Silver Wolf Gurl: We should both update ASAP!
MagicKnightNancy: Thanks
Feathers1: Thanks!
Synchrogirl: I love my cliffy too! It was my first. And FYI this on is too! I'm on a roll!
Dragon-Wing3: I did do a disclaimer…. The book is by Tamora Pierce, the Lioness Quartet… I'm sorry….. But thanks for reviewing anyway!
Jay: I love this story too!
A Little Birdie: Oh, don't worry….don't tell any buddy….but there is some raising of the dead in the future chapters….Thanks for reviewing!
Look at my page under news for summaries. Are stories I am thinking of starting. E-mail me your choice(s)! I sorry I didn't update for so long! Backs away from small crowd of people who are closing in on her
I was 181 on the list so I decided to update. And for the fact that my piece of crap computer finally got my internet to work!
Do I even have to say it….. I don't on Card Captor Sakura! Clamp does!!!!! And Tamora Pierce's Idea's either! I use a big part in this Chappy!
Chapter 4
Magic
Sakura took one of Syaoran's hands in her own and raised her other. In her outstretched hand, the Clow book appeared. She placed the book on the bed and drew out the cards. She threw them into the air and the circled her in like a cyclone. She examined each card. 'None would work,' she thought, 'she would have to use her healing.' She placed the cards back in the book and it disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared. She relentlessly let go of his hand and moved to the hearth.
A moan from the bed reminded her of why she was there. Kneeling before the flames of the fire, she whispered the words her village healer had taught her to call upon the Greater Powers- the gods. Slowly, very slowly, because she had never used her magic in this way, the flames turned pink. She reached both hands into the flames.
Sakura's essence, the stuff that made her Sakura, streamed out through her palms. She was dissolved into the fire; she was the fire. Then she uttered the spell Shenavi told her to use only when nothing else was left.
"Bright Goddess, Great Mother, show me the way. Open the gates to me. Guide me, Mother of mountains and mares-"
The fire roared up with a sound like thunderclap. Sakura's body jerked, but she couldn't move away from the hearth. The fire filled her eyes. She saw countless gates and doors opening in front of her. Now raw energy rammed through Sakura's arms, into her body. She chocked back a gasp as her flesh turned into a bright pink fire contained only by her skin. She glowed; she shimmered; she burned with raw magic. It hurt. Every part of her screamed for cold and dark to put out the fire. She couldn't hold it. She would burst like a rotten fruit.
A voice spoke, and Sakura screamed. That voice was not meant to ever be heard by human ears. "Call him back," it chimed, "I'm here. Call him back. You are the only one who can save him."
Tears ran down her cheeks. The voice and the fire was killing her.
Something inside of her rebelled, her heart. She clenched her fists and fought the pain. She ground her teeth her teeth together, 'she would save him, to save the world.' Her body had never given the orders before-she could not let it start now. 'Am I a silly child?' She thought angrily, 'or am I a warrior going to save the world!'
She fought back, shoving the pain away until she had it under control.
Sakura walked to the bed. The color had dimmed, but Sakura continued to shine with the pink fire. Sakura stood looking down at Syaoran. He seemed so far away, so far from her. "He has traveled a long way," the terrible voice said. "Take his hands, call him back."
The small part of Sakura that realized that the voice was her mother. "Thank you," she whispered.
She took Syaoran's hands carefully. Her mind reached into his unseeing eyes.
"Syaoran," Sakura called, "It is time to come home, Prince."
Sakura fell into the amber depths of her friend's eyes. She was twisting in a black well. The alien place pulsed around her, enclosing around her like a living thing. Shrieks and cackling and the screams of doomed souls sounded all around her. She was on the edge of the living and the Underworld. She drifted between Life and Death.
"Syaoran," she called steadily, feeling the power in her shoving the black back. "Syaoran," she called again. At last she could see him. He was far below her, near the bottom of the well, near Death. A huge, dark shadow shaped like a hooded man came between them. Even in her strange state, Sakura was afraid. This must be the Dark God, the Master of all death.
She couldn't, she wouldn't let him have him. "You can't have him, not yet. He's coming back with me because I need him, the world needs him."
The shadowy hands reached out for her. Sakura stood still, her mind called upon the shield card. The silver shield formed in front of her. His shadowy hands pasted right through the shield and placed them around her neck. She shivered in both this world and in the real. The hands were so cold, even with her fire skin. After a second he removed his hand to revel a key in the shape of a bird's head. A voice, so dark and deep that it made Sakura tremble as he spoke, "He will go. You are strong, as strong as the Gods themselves," behind him a console of powerful looking people arose in a vision. He continued, "That is the Key of Clow. You will need it to use the Clow cards correctly." With that the black shadow was gone.
Sakura reached out to Syaoran, their hands clasped. "Let's go home," she told her friend, "this place is not for us."
Syaoran smiled, "I'm coming."
Their gripped hands glowed white-hot, melting away all the shadows all around them. Their combined gifts burned away the walls of that unreal place. Soon they reached the end of the well.
"Thank you," he whispered before he closed his eyes and fell into a peaceful sleep.
"Welcome," Sakura whispered back as the fire ebbed out of her body, her skin returned to normal. She quickly stood up and ran to the window and emptied her stomach of the little food she had had all day. Then she rinsed her mouth in the sink before heading to her room where she slept for two days.
)(
Syaoran slept for six days. After the event, both of them had received necklaces from the God. Sakura's the Key of Clow and Syaoran's a small orb that transformed into a magic sword. Kero was now training Sakura in how to use the key and the Clow cards.
One day, about a month after the event, Sakura was called into a privet chamber of the Prince.
She filled him in on the work he had missed during his rest. As they were studying they came across the prophecy.
Syaoran read it out load:
'After 6000 years of laying dormant, will rise again the evil who was locked away so long ago, the nemis of Clow Reed, who will destroy the world.
The Key:
But in this time of peril, two heroes will rise, male and female, dragon and lioness, sun and moon.
The Moon:
The male of the dragon, shall bare the mark of the dragon upon his left shoulder blade. Upon his head, rest a crown, for he is the leader of the clan.
The Sun:
The female of the lion, shall bare the mark the lioness upon her right breast, she hides behind the mask of a male, achieving the power to be an knight, to avenge the lost.
Guardians:
Dragon and Lioness are both trained by the Clow Reed's guardians, two shining stars created of hopes and dreams. Shall train the heroes in martial arts, sword, and magic.
Planet:
Earth, without the sun nor moon, would have neither night or day. Just as earth, the heroes need to work together, only then will they win. If they do not merge, the world is lost, but if they merge with a single common bond, the world can be saved. With their powers combined, they can heal, love, save.'
"So we will never find her," Syaoran finally spoke, "Will the Sun and the Moon ever arrive? I mean, everyone knows I'm the Moon. No one can prove it, but who is the Sun. She must be at the Palace by now, I only hope that I will find her in time. There is less then three years before the evil will rise."
Sakura bowed her head. she could not let him know yet, too much was at jeopardy.
)(
"What do you think Syaoran?" his mother questioned him.
"About what?" he looked at her.
She frowned, but repeated, "To have a ball on the full moon of June to celebrate your return to good health and your marriage to Meilin."
Syaoran spit out his sip of drink he had been taking, "M-marriage to M-meilin?"
"Yes," Yelen frowned, "or...or do you fancy another?"
He stared at his mother with wide eyes, "-no, no other. But I do not with to get married yet mother, I am only 16. Please, lets just celebrate to my return to good health."
Yelen still smiled, "Very well." With that, she dismissed him.
)(
Syaoran raced down the hall in search of Sakura. He found her in her room. She was giving her Mathematics book a evil look. He knocked on the doorframe and she looked up from her book. She smiled, stood, and bowed. He stepped in and closed the door behind him.
Only then did he notice that she already had someone in her room. He looked first at the new person, then to Sakura with curious eyes.
)(
Past - One day ago:
Try as she may, Sakura could not understand the Algebra homework. Just as she was about to throw it through the window in hopes that it landed in a puddle, a knock was heard. 'It must be Syaoran, he promised to come by later, to help her with her math. She leaped up and ran to open it.
"Sakura, mother of goddess, you look like crap!" the female voice spoke as the woman pushed past Sakura to look inside the room.
The girl was wearing a dark blue riding-coat and a white dress. Her hair was tied up into a scarf. Sakura had barely seen the girl's face.
"Sakura, I think you have the wrong room, that isn't my maids name," Sakura questioned.
"Still so naïve even after all of this time," she twisted to look at Sakura, the girl's bright amethyst eyes glistening in her face.
"Tomoyo?" Sakura questioned.
"Yes silly," Tomoyo laughed, "and what have you done with yourself?" Sakura cast her a odd glance. "You have come to the Palace and forgotten to give your sister a hug. Sakura smiled and embraced Tomoyo.
)(
"Syaoran, Sakura introduced, "this is my sister, Tomoyo. Sis, this is Prince Li."
He nodded, taking both of Tomoyo's hands in his. He kissed both of her cheeks and then each hand. (this is a friendly greeting giving from on male peer to a female peer kinda kool eh'. I made it up all by my self) He turned to Sakura, "she's a looker." Sakura's jaw dropped to the floor.
Syaoran turned and took his leave. "Let you two catch up."
)(
They talked long into the night. Tomoyo soon fell asleep on Sakura's bed. Sakura then grabbed her sword and left the room. Soon the foot steps faded into the distance.
Tomoyo opened one eye before leaping to her feet. She fallowed Sakura's to the training field in the rose garden.
Tomoyo hid behind a tree watching the practice going on before her. She stood in awe as she watched Sakura move with such grace and power. Tears began to fall down her cheeks, 'Our savior.'
)(
Sakura took a seconds break after completing the technique that Kero had just told her to perform.
"So why is it," Sakura began. "What," Keroberos growled. Sakura had missed one step in the move that the was trying to get her to master.
"If I am the daughter of the lioness, why is it that I am trained by a lion?" The armored beast gave Sakura an odd look before cracking up in a fit of laughter. The sound echoed in the courtyard carrying the sound farther.
)(
Syaoran stopped training as soon as the angelic laughter filled the air. He sheathed his sword and began to run in the direction the music was coming from.
He was stopped by Yue. His wings were spread to their full extent, blocking his way past.
"No Moon," Yue spoke, "She is not ready to meet you yet."
Syaoran's eyes widened, "The Sun!"
Will try and update soon. Love you all! Till next time!
TheMysticWarrior
Shannon: Thanks for all four reviews! They really inspired me!
Angle-Princess: Thanks!
CrystallinePetals: Thanks, and yes some of the plots is barrowed from Tamora's Lioness Quartet series. I think I put that in the disclaimer….but I will this time!
Roise: Thanks!
Silver Wolf Gurl: We should both update ASAP!
MagicKnightNancy: Thanks
Feathers1: Thanks!
Synchrogirl: I love my cliffy too! It was my first. And FYI this on is too! I'm on a roll!
Dragon-Wing3: I did do a disclaimer…. The book is by Tamora Pierce, the Lioness Quartet… I'm sorry….. But thanks for reviewing anyway!
Jay: I love this story too!
A Little Birdie: Oh, don't worry….don't tell any buddy….but there is some raising of the dead in the future chapters….Thanks for reviewing!
Look at my page under news for summaries. Are stories I am thinking of starting. E-mail me your choice(s)! I sorry I didn't update for so long! Backs away from small crowd of people who are closing in on her
I was 181 on the list so I decided to update. And for the fact that my piece of crap computer finally got my internet to work!
Do I even have to say it….. I don't on Card Captor Sakura! Clamp does!!!!! And Tamora Pierce's Idea's either! I use a big part in this Chappy!
Chapter 4
Magic
Sakura took one of Syaoran's hands in her own and raised her other. In her outstretched hand, the Clow book appeared. She placed the book on the bed and drew out the cards. She threw them into the air and the circled her in like a cyclone. She examined each card. 'None would work,' she thought, 'she would have to use her healing.' She placed the cards back in the book and it disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared. She relentlessly let go of his hand and moved to the hearth.
A moan from the bed reminded her of why she was there. Kneeling before the flames of the fire, she whispered the words her village healer had taught her to call upon the Greater Powers- the gods. Slowly, very slowly, because she had never used her magic in this way, the flames turned pink. She reached both hands into the flames.
Sakura's essence, the stuff that made her Sakura, streamed out through her palms. She was dissolved into the fire; she was the fire. Then she uttered the spell Shenavi told her to use only when nothing else was left.
"Bright Goddess, Great Mother, show me the way. Open the gates to me. Guide me, Mother of mountains and mares-"
The fire roared up with a sound like thunderclap. Sakura's body jerked, but she couldn't move away from the hearth. The fire filled her eyes. She saw countless gates and doors opening in front of her. Now raw energy rammed through Sakura's arms, into her body. She chocked back a gasp as her flesh turned into a bright pink fire contained only by her skin. She glowed; she shimmered; she burned with raw magic. It hurt. Every part of her screamed for cold and dark to put out the fire. She couldn't hold it. She would burst like a rotten fruit.
A voice spoke, and Sakura screamed. That voice was not meant to ever be heard by human ears. "Call him back," it chimed, "I'm here. Call him back. You are the only one who can save him."
Tears ran down her cheeks. The voice and the fire was killing her.
Something inside of her rebelled, her heart. She clenched her fists and fought the pain. She ground her teeth her teeth together, 'she would save him, to save the world.' Her body had never given the orders before-she could not let it start now. 'Am I a silly child?' She thought angrily, 'or am I a warrior going to save the world!'
She fought back, shoving the pain away until she had it under control.
Sakura walked to the bed. The color had dimmed, but Sakura continued to shine with the pink fire. Sakura stood looking down at Syaoran. He seemed so far away, so far from her. "He has traveled a long way," the terrible voice said. "Take his hands, call him back."
The small part of Sakura that realized that the voice was her mother. "Thank you," she whispered.
She took Syaoran's hands carefully. Her mind reached into his unseeing eyes.
"Syaoran," Sakura called, "It is time to come home, Prince."
Sakura fell into the amber depths of her friend's eyes. She was twisting in a black well. The alien place pulsed around her, enclosing around her like a living thing. Shrieks and cackling and the screams of doomed souls sounded all around her. She was on the edge of the living and the Underworld. She drifted between Life and Death.
"Syaoran," she called steadily, feeling the power in her shoving the black back. "Syaoran," she called again. At last she could see him. He was far below her, near the bottom of the well, near Death. A huge, dark shadow shaped like a hooded man came between them. Even in her strange state, Sakura was afraid. This must be the Dark God, the Master of all death.
She couldn't, she wouldn't let him have him. "You can't have him, not yet. He's coming back with me because I need him, the world needs him."
The shadowy hands reached out for her. Sakura stood still, her mind called upon the shield card. The silver shield formed in front of her. His shadowy hands pasted right through the shield and placed them around her neck. She shivered in both this world and in the real. The hands were so cold, even with her fire skin. After a second he removed his hand to revel a key in the shape of a bird's head. A voice, so dark and deep that it made Sakura tremble as he spoke, "He will go. You are strong, as strong as the Gods themselves," behind him a console of powerful looking people arose in a vision. He continued, "That is the Key of Clow. You will need it to use the Clow cards correctly." With that the black shadow was gone.
Sakura reached out to Syaoran, their hands clasped. "Let's go home," she told her friend, "this place is not for us."
Syaoran smiled, "I'm coming."
Their gripped hands glowed white-hot, melting away all the shadows all around them. Their combined gifts burned away the walls of that unreal place. Soon they reached the end of the well.
"Thank you," he whispered before he closed his eyes and fell into a peaceful sleep.
"Welcome," Sakura whispered back as the fire ebbed out of her body, her skin returned to normal. She quickly stood up and ran to the window and emptied her stomach of the little food she had had all day. Then she rinsed her mouth in the sink before heading to her room where she slept for two days.
)(
Syaoran slept for six days. After the event, both of them had received necklaces from the God. Sakura's the Key of Clow and Syaoran's a small orb that transformed into a magic sword. Kero was now training Sakura in how to use the key and the Clow cards.
One day, about a month after the event, Sakura was called into a privet chamber of the Prince.
She filled him in on the work he had missed during his rest. As they were studying they came across the prophecy.
Syaoran read it out load:
'After 6000 years of laying dormant, will rise again the evil who was locked away so long ago, the nemis of Clow Reed, who will destroy the world.
The Key:
But in this time of peril, two heroes will rise, male and female, dragon and lioness, sun and moon.
The Moon:
The male of the dragon, shall bare the mark of the dragon upon his left shoulder blade. Upon his head, rest a crown, for he is the leader of the clan.
The Sun:
The female of the lion, shall bare the mark the lioness upon her right breast, she hides behind the mask of a male, achieving the power to be an knight, to avenge the lost.
Guardians:
Dragon and Lioness are both trained by the Clow Reed's guardians, two shining stars created of hopes and dreams. Shall train the heroes in martial arts, sword, and magic.
Planet:
Earth, without the sun nor moon, would have neither night or day. Just as earth, the heroes need to work together, only then will they win. If they do not merge, the world is lost, but if they merge with a single common bond, the world can be saved. With their powers combined, they can heal, love, save.'
"So we will never find her," Syaoran finally spoke, "Will the Sun and the Moon ever arrive? I mean, everyone knows I'm the Moon. No one can prove it, but who is the Sun. She must be at the Palace by now, I only hope that I will find her in time. There is less then three years before the evil will rise."
Sakura bowed her head. she could not let him know yet, too much was at jeopardy.
)(
"What do you think Syaoran?" his mother questioned him.
"About what?" he looked at her.
She frowned, but repeated, "To have a ball on the full moon of June to celebrate your return to good health and your marriage to Meilin."
Syaoran spit out his sip of drink he had been taking, "M-marriage to M-meilin?"
"Yes," Yelen frowned, "or...or do you fancy another?"
He stared at his mother with wide eyes, "-no, no other. But I do not with to get married yet mother, I am only 16. Please, lets just celebrate to my return to good health."
Yelen still smiled, "Very well." With that, she dismissed him.
)(
Syaoran raced down the hall in search of Sakura. He found her in her room. She was giving her Mathematics book a evil look. He knocked on the doorframe and she looked up from her book. She smiled, stood, and bowed. He stepped in and closed the door behind him.
Only then did he notice that she already had someone in her room. He looked first at the new person, then to Sakura with curious eyes.
)(
Past - One day ago:
Try as she may, Sakura could not understand the Algebra homework. Just as she was about to throw it through the window in hopes that it landed in a puddle, a knock was heard. 'It must be Syaoran, he promised to come by later, to help her with her math. She leaped up and ran to open it.
"Sakura, mother of goddess, you look like crap!" the female voice spoke as the woman pushed past Sakura to look inside the room.
The girl was wearing a dark blue riding-coat and a white dress. Her hair was tied up into a scarf. Sakura had barely seen the girl's face.
"Sakura, I think you have the wrong room, that isn't my maids name," Sakura questioned.
"Still so naïve even after all of this time," she twisted to look at Sakura, the girl's bright amethyst eyes glistening in her face.
"Tomoyo?" Sakura questioned.
"Yes silly," Tomoyo laughed, "and what have you done with yourself?" Sakura cast her a odd glance. "You have come to the Palace and forgotten to give your sister a hug. Sakura smiled and embraced Tomoyo.
)(
"Syaoran, Sakura introduced, "this is my sister, Tomoyo. Sis, this is Prince Li."
He nodded, taking both of Tomoyo's hands in his. He kissed both of her cheeks and then each hand. (this is a friendly greeting giving from on male peer to a female peer kinda kool eh'. I made it up all by my self) He turned to Sakura, "she's a looker." Sakura's jaw dropped to the floor.
Syaoran turned and took his leave. "Let you two catch up."
)(
They talked long into the night. Tomoyo soon fell asleep on Sakura's bed. Sakura then grabbed her sword and left the room. Soon the foot steps faded into the distance.
Tomoyo opened one eye before leaping to her feet. She fallowed Sakura's to the training field in the rose garden.
Tomoyo hid behind a tree watching the practice going on before her. She stood in awe as she watched Sakura move with such grace and power. Tears began to fall down her cheeks, 'Our savior.'
)(
Sakura took a seconds break after completing the technique that Kero had just told her to perform.
"So why is it," Sakura began. "What," Keroberos growled. Sakura had missed one step in the move that the was trying to get her to master.
"If I am the daughter of the lioness, why is it that I am trained by a lion?" The armored beast gave Sakura an odd look before cracking up in a fit of laughter. The sound echoed in the courtyard carrying the sound farther.
)(
Syaoran stopped training as soon as the angelic laughter filled the air. He sheathed his sword and began to run in the direction the music was coming from.
He was stopped by Yue. His wings were spread to their full extent, blocking his way past.
"No Moon," Yue spoke, "She is not ready to meet you yet."
Syaoran's eyes widened, "The Sun!"
Will try and update soon. Love you all! Till next time!
TheMysticWarrior