AN: Sigh.. Feel lucky I'm even finding time to type this up. For the sake
of you people, I'm ditching my English homework in order to think up this
chapter. Be grateful... VERY grateful. I'm risking getting an 'F' in
English, just for the sake of you people.
Thank you, reviewers!! I love ya all!
DISCLAIMER: If I owned CCS, I'd- I'd- I'd GIVE A BETTER ENDING TO IT!!!!!
".."=talking ..=thinking ^*^*^*^*=change of setting [AN.]=Author's Notes
Friend or Foe, by KawaiiSakuraAngel... Chapter Seventeen:
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Li Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Yelan was pacing around the room. The sun already set, and Xiaolang was still nowhere in sight. Yelan wasn't worried- she knew Syaoran can take care of himself. She was afraid that she wouldn't get the Clow Cards. Maybe it was possible that Syaoran decided to give them back- or maybe he never got them at all. But if he didn't get them, why did he even dare to come back? She began to get a headache, so she sat down on her chair.
"CALL THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS!" she hollered. When the servants hesitated, she added, "NOW!" The servants scattered out of the room, going to find the captain, wherever he may be.
The captain arrived, panting and out of breath. When he heard that the queen was in a bad mood, he tried to get there as fast as possible. "I'm here, Your Majesty."
Yelan nodded. "Good. I'm worried that-" Yelan stopped. She was almost going to say she was worried Xiaolang lost the Clow Cards. That would give others a bad impression of her. "I'm worried, because Prince Xiaolang still hasn't come back. He's been missing since yesterday afternoon, a little after noon. I want you to find him, as soon as you can."
The guard stole a look at Wei, who turned away. Everyone knew that the prince trusted the servant. He bowed, and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." The queen nodded her approval.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Hiiragizawa Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Eriol, unfortunately, was still trying to work out the more advanced spell when it came to teleporting. [AN: He was trying to invent one, in other words.] This meant that he wasn't able to teleport anything but himself (and the belongings that were on him). Unfortunately, a horse, Syaoran, and his pony, which Eriol found, were not 'belongings'. The pony wasn't used to having Syaoran as an owner, and wouldn't let Eriol put the unconscious boy on him. Eriol's horse wouldn't, either.
Eriol couldn't use a levitation spell for that long, so he ended up putting Syaoran on his back, while the two horses followed. They didn't mind following him. After a while, he stopped to take a break. The two horses stood as if talking. Eriol wiped his forehead. His neck hurt, and his back felt like it was broken. He decided to take a little nap.
Just then, Syaoran shifted a little, and his head fell onto Eriol's shoulder. Eriol pushed him off, grumbling. Syaoran's eyes began to twitch, and eventually woke up. With a lightning-quick movement, he shot up and got into a fighting stance.
Eriol glanced at him lazily. "Oh yeah, you can kill me now," he remarked sarcastically.
Syaoran looked down, noticing the king for the first time. "What am I doing here? What are you doing here?" Syaoran demanded.
Eriol didn't bother to look at Syaoran anymore. Looking up made his neck hurt more. "Well, I was on my way back to the castle, when you showed up in my path, looking half-dead. Feel happy I did anything at all. I've never known anyone so UN-grateful."
Syaoran glared at Eriol, only to realize that he was glaring at a sleeping person. Syaoran muttered to himself, and sat at a distance. He was tired, too, and fell into a fitful slumber.
~ Tomoyo and Sakura went to find Eriol, but he wasn't there. Supposedly, they were going to find him and to say thanks for 'saving Sakura's life'. Sakura decided to look for him, as she had nothing to do. Tomoyo was left behind, helpless, when Sakura rode away on a horse. She spent most of her life in the castle, and never learned to ride. Sighing, she went back to work on some costumes for Sakura. ~
Sakura rode until she saw two specks in the distance. She used the card dash on her horse, and it flew towards the two silhouettes. Closer, it was to outline of two horses. Nearby, there were two shapes. Sakura saw that they were Syaoran and Eriol. She gasped. What if Eriol hurt Syaoran? Sakura mentally hit herself. No, it was supposed to be the opposite way. What if Syaoran hut Eriol? After all, Syaoran was the one who tried to kill her and all.
She kneeled by Eriol, and shook him gently. Syaoran was awakened by her movements, and got up. Like last time, he jumped right to a fighting stance. Sakura saw him out of the corner of her eye, but didn't say anything. Syaoran saw that the person was Sakura, and sank back to the ground.
Sakura was a bit surprised, but continued to shake Eriol. Eriol groaned, and woke up. "Where am I?" he muttered softly. Sakura's face slowly became less crowed to his vision, and he remembered everything. Looking at Syaoran, he said, "You owe me an explanation of how you got here."
Syaoran looked annoyed, but he answered anyway. "I was escaping from my mother, and so I took a horse and started riding away. The horse got tired, so I traded it for that pony. Then, I got attacked by some desert bandits in your kingdom here. I was planning to go around, but that would mean running straight into mother's army base, so I decided to cut through your kingdom. And look where I ended up," he said dryly. Then he actually laughed a little, but more in the way a crazy person would laugh, not joyfully. "You know, maybe I should have just let my mother kill me. I mean, I don't have my sword, and I don't have any money. All of it went to the owner of the pony."
Sakura felt pity for him, while Eriol looked at Syaoran suspiciously. Eriol glanced at Syaoran with a special spell that only the greatest wizards could do. It showed if a person had magical abilities, even if the person was hiding them. Even with this, Syaoran's aura was dim, and he had nothing magical on him. "So it's true," Eriol commented to himself.
Syaoran noticed the way Eriol was looking at him. "I wouldn't lie," he snapped, then turned oh Sakura. "Kinomoto, don't pity me. I don't need pity. It's bad enough knowing that mother will have an army chasing after me." Sakura didn't say anything.
Eriol got up. "Fine, you can come with us, since you can't really do any harm now. Well, you still have your martial arts, but they're no match against the Sakura Cards." He shrugged.
Syaoran broke into a fit of coughs, as if choking on something. Gasping for breath, he asked, "The WHAT Cards?!"
Eriol scoffed at him. "Oh, the GREAT prince didn't know? Now the world's going to end!" Eriol dropped the high, mocking voice. "Seriously, you didn't know?" Syaoran managed to climb on the pony. He remained quiet for the rest of the way to the Hiiragizawa castle, where he was going to hide for a while.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Hiiragizawa Castle ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Tomoyo went wide-eyed at the sight she saw at the window. If she wasn't mistaken, Syaoran was with Sakura and Eriol. Her features took on an evil look. There was finally going to be some action! Now she had a chance to pair the two up again (meaning S + S). She called a maid to her. The maid was new in the castle. That made it all easier.
Downstairs, the trio was just coming in. A nervous maid came rushing to greet them. "We-Welcome. Umm... I assume that you two are master's guests."
Sakura smiled. "In a way," she said.
The maid nodded. "So what kingdom do you rule?"
Syaoran looked confused. "What do you mean, what country do we rule?"
The maid looked surprised. "I'm so sorry! I thought that you two were the queen and king of some kingdom. You look the part, at least. I'm so sorry!" With that last apology, the maid ran off into the hallway, where Tomoyo was.
Tomoyo smiled. "Nice acting there," she commented. "Thank you for helping me." The maid smiled, and then went back to her original job, cleaning the castle. Looking around the corner of the wall again, Tomoyo saw Sakura and Syaoran's faces, both bright red from embarrassment, and smiled.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Li Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Yelan was pacing back and forth, back and forth. She paced so much that even the servants became dizzy and got out of the room. She was fuming, angry with Syaoran, and angry with the captain for not finding him. Yelan decided to make another trip to the temple.
Yelan, like last time, lit some incense (I think that's spelled wrong), and kneeled. She looked up at the statue, and prayed that it would bring her son back, even if he doesn't have the Clow Cards. She wanted an explanation, and it was all right with her if the Buddha told her instead. She waited, hearing nothing but the monks outside, sweeping. She thanked the Buddha, then addressed her husband.
To her husband, she told him that Syaoran has brought disgrace to the family. Syaoran has lied about getting the cards to her. She asked him to bring back her son, so that she would get an explanation from him. Hoping the two se prayed to listened, she headed back to her room, pushing anyone that got in her way.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Hiiragizawa Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Meanwhile, Sakura, Tomoyo, Kero, Eriol, and his two guardians were having a little meeting. Syaoran was sound asleep in his room, which gave them the freedom of discussing him as a subject. Eriol wanted to make the meeting brief, as he had kingdom matters to attend to. Unfortunately, the meeting was three-on-three. Kero, Suppi, and Eriol wanted to exile Syaoran, while Nakuru, Sakura, and Tomoyo wanted him to stay.
Eriol decided that everyone should say why he or she wants Syaoran to stay/leave. He began: "His mission is to kill Sakura and get the Sakura Cards."
"Let him stay. He looks cute." At this, everyone sweatdropped. Only Nakuru was left smiling.
"He wants to take the C- Sakura Cards."
"He makes a good couple with Sakura, and I can make her more costumes when she fights." (Everyone sweatdropped this time, except for Tomoyo, and Sakura blushed.)
"He tried to hurt Sakura, and he always ignored me." Kero rolled his eyes.
"I feel.. sorry for him?" Sakura felt that her reason was the weakest, but it made the second-most sense. The first was that he had his eyes on the Sakura Cards.
"Our reasons make more sense," concluded Eriol. "Therefore, the 'prince' goes."
Tomoyo pouted. "That's not true. The three of you just repeated the same thing, except for Kero, whose reason doesn't make sense either. Besides, Sakura made sense with hers, didn't she?"
Eriol opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again. After a moment of silence, he muttered, "fine," and walked out of the room. Tomoyo jumped around for joy, and Sakura was still wondering if she did the right thing. Nakuru, though, was staring out the window, at a huge shadow-like shape appearing over the hills, heading straight for the castle.
Hehe... I'm ending it here!!! HA! Well... I said I wasn't going to update, and yet I'm updating everyday. *sigh* I really think I'm gonna fail English. But as a WARNING, you all should know that I can't update too often. I'm just taking advantage of the fact that my uncle is here, and my father can't boss me around, got that?
~*KawaiiSakuraAngel*~
Thank you, reviewers!! I love ya all!
DISCLAIMER: If I owned CCS, I'd- I'd- I'd GIVE A BETTER ENDING TO IT!!!!!
".."=talking ..=thinking ^*^*^*^*=change of setting [AN.]=Author's Notes
Friend or Foe, by KawaiiSakuraAngel... Chapter Seventeen:
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Li Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Yelan was pacing around the room. The sun already set, and Xiaolang was still nowhere in sight. Yelan wasn't worried- she knew Syaoran can take care of himself. She was afraid that she wouldn't get the Clow Cards. Maybe it was possible that Syaoran decided to give them back- or maybe he never got them at all. But if he didn't get them, why did he even dare to come back? She began to get a headache, so she sat down on her chair.
"CALL THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS!" she hollered. When the servants hesitated, she added, "NOW!" The servants scattered out of the room, going to find the captain, wherever he may be.
The captain arrived, panting and out of breath. When he heard that the queen was in a bad mood, he tried to get there as fast as possible. "I'm here, Your Majesty."
Yelan nodded. "Good. I'm worried that-" Yelan stopped. She was almost going to say she was worried Xiaolang lost the Clow Cards. That would give others a bad impression of her. "I'm worried, because Prince Xiaolang still hasn't come back. He's been missing since yesterday afternoon, a little after noon. I want you to find him, as soon as you can."
The guard stole a look at Wei, who turned away. Everyone knew that the prince trusted the servant. He bowed, and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." The queen nodded her approval.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Hiiragizawa Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Eriol, unfortunately, was still trying to work out the more advanced spell when it came to teleporting. [AN: He was trying to invent one, in other words.] This meant that he wasn't able to teleport anything but himself (and the belongings that were on him). Unfortunately, a horse, Syaoran, and his pony, which Eriol found, were not 'belongings'. The pony wasn't used to having Syaoran as an owner, and wouldn't let Eriol put the unconscious boy on him. Eriol's horse wouldn't, either.
Eriol couldn't use a levitation spell for that long, so he ended up putting Syaoran on his back, while the two horses followed. They didn't mind following him. After a while, he stopped to take a break. The two horses stood as if talking. Eriol wiped his forehead. His neck hurt, and his back felt like it was broken. He decided to take a little nap.
Just then, Syaoran shifted a little, and his head fell onto Eriol's shoulder. Eriol pushed him off, grumbling. Syaoran's eyes began to twitch, and eventually woke up. With a lightning-quick movement, he shot up and got into a fighting stance.
Eriol glanced at him lazily. "Oh yeah, you can kill me now," he remarked sarcastically.
Syaoran looked down, noticing the king for the first time. "What am I doing here? What are you doing here?" Syaoran demanded.
Eriol didn't bother to look at Syaoran anymore. Looking up made his neck hurt more. "Well, I was on my way back to the castle, when you showed up in my path, looking half-dead. Feel happy I did anything at all. I've never known anyone so UN-grateful."
Syaoran glared at Eriol, only to realize that he was glaring at a sleeping person. Syaoran muttered to himself, and sat at a distance. He was tired, too, and fell into a fitful slumber.
~ Tomoyo and Sakura went to find Eriol, but he wasn't there. Supposedly, they were going to find him and to say thanks for 'saving Sakura's life'. Sakura decided to look for him, as she had nothing to do. Tomoyo was left behind, helpless, when Sakura rode away on a horse. She spent most of her life in the castle, and never learned to ride. Sighing, she went back to work on some costumes for Sakura. ~
Sakura rode until she saw two specks in the distance. She used the card dash on her horse, and it flew towards the two silhouettes. Closer, it was to outline of two horses. Nearby, there were two shapes. Sakura saw that they were Syaoran and Eriol. She gasped. What if Eriol hurt Syaoran? Sakura mentally hit herself. No, it was supposed to be the opposite way. What if Syaoran hut Eriol? After all, Syaoran was the one who tried to kill her and all.
She kneeled by Eriol, and shook him gently. Syaoran was awakened by her movements, and got up. Like last time, he jumped right to a fighting stance. Sakura saw him out of the corner of her eye, but didn't say anything. Syaoran saw that the person was Sakura, and sank back to the ground.
Sakura was a bit surprised, but continued to shake Eriol. Eriol groaned, and woke up. "Where am I?" he muttered softly. Sakura's face slowly became less crowed to his vision, and he remembered everything. Looking at Syaoran, he said, "You owe me an explanation of how you got here."
Syaoran looked annoyed, but he answered anyway. "I was escaping from my mother, and so I took a horse and started riding away. The horse got tired, so I traded it for that pony. Then, I got attacked by some desert bandits in your kingdom here. I was planning to go around, but that would mean running straight into mother's army base, so I decided to cut through your kingdom. And look where I ended up," he said dryly. Then he actually laughed a little, but more in the way a crazy person would laugh, not joyfully. "You know, maybe I should have just let my mother kill me. I mean, I don't have my sword, and I don't have any money. All of it went to the owner of the pony."
Sakura felt pity for him, while Eriol looked at Syaoran suspiciously. Eriol glanced at Syaoran with a special spell that only the greatest wizards could do. It showed if a person had magical abilities, even if the person was hiding them. Even with this, Syaoran's aura was dim, and he had nothing magical on him. "So it's true," Eriol commented to himself.
Syaoran noticed the way Eriol was looking at him. "I wouldn't lie," he snapped, then turned oh Sakura. "Kinomoto, don't pity me. I don't need pity. It's bad enough knowing that mother will have an army chasing after me." Sakura didn't say anything.
Eriol got up. "Fine, you can come with us, since you can't really do any harm now. Well, you still have your martial arts, but they're no match against the Sakura Cards." He shrugged.
Syaoran broke into a fit of coughs, as if choking on something. Gasping for breath, he asked, "The WHAT Cards?!"
Eriol scoffed at him. "Oh, the GREAT prince didn't know? Now the world's going to end!" Eriol dropped the high, mocking voice. "Seriously, you didn't know?" Syaoran managed to climb on the pony. He remained quiet for the rest of the way to the Hiiragizawa castle, where he was going to hide for a while.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Hiiragizawa Castle ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Tomoyo went wide-eyed at the sight she saw at the window. If she wasn't mistaken, Syaoran was with Sakura and Eriol. Her features took on an evil look. There was finally going to be some action! Now she had a chance to pair the two up again (meaning S + S). She called a maid to her. The maid was new in the castle. That made it all easier.
Downstairs, the trio was just coming in. A nervous maid came rushing to greet them. "We-Welcome. Umm... I assume that you two are master's guests."
Sakura smiled. "In a way," she said.
The maid nodded. "So what kingdom do you rule?"
Syaoran looked confused. "What do you mean, what country do we rule?"
The maid looked surprised. "I'm so sorry! I thought that you two were the queen and king of some kingdom. You look the part, at least. I'm so sorry!" With that last apology, the maid ran off into the hallway, where Tomoyo was.
Tomoyo smiled. "Nice acting there," she commented. "Thank you for helping me." The maid smiled, and then went back to her original job, cleaning the castle. Looking around the corner of the wall again, Tomoyo saw Sakura and Syaoran's faces, both bright red from embarrassment, and smiled.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Li Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Yelan was pacing back and forth, back and forth. She paced so much that even the servants became dizzy and got out of the room. She was fuming, angry with Syaoran, and angry with the captain for not finding him. Yelan decided to make another trip to the temple.
Yelan, like last time, lit some incense (I think that's spelled wrong), and kneeled. She looked up at the statue, and prayed that it would bring her son back, even if he doesn't have the Clow Cards. She wanted an explanation, and it was all right with her if the Buddha told her instead. She waited, hearing nothing but the monks outside, sweeping. She thanked the Buddha, then addressed her husband.
To her husband, she told him that Syaoran has brought disgrace to the family. Syaoran has lied about getting the cards to her. She asked him to bring back her son, so that she would get an explanation from him. Hoping the two se prayed to listened, she headed back to her room, pushing anyone that got in her way.
^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Hiiragizawa Kingdom ^*^*^*^*^*^*^
Meanwhile, Sakura, Tomoyo, Kero, Eriol, and his two guardians were having a little meeting. Syaoran was sound asleep in his room, which gave them the freedom of discussing him as a subject. Eriol wanted to make the meeting brief, as he had kingdom matters to attend to. Unfortunately, the meeting was three-on-three. Kero, Suppi, and Eriol wanted to exile Syaoran, while Nakuru, Sakura, and Tomoyo wanted him to stay.
Eriol decided that everyone should say why he or she wants Syaoran to stay/leave. He began: "His mission is to kill Sakura and get the Sakura Cards."
"Let him stay. He looks cute." At this, everyone sweatdropped. Only Nakuru was left smiling.
"He wants to take the C- Sakura Cards."
"He makes a good couple with Sakura, and I can make her more costumes when she fights." (Everyone sweatdropped this time, except for Tomoyo, and Sakura blushed.)
"He tried to hurt Sakura, and he always ignored me." Kero rolled his eyes.
"I feel.. sorry for him?" Sakura felt that her reason was the weakest, but it made the second-most sense. The first was that he had his eyes on the Sakura Cards.
"Our reasons make more sense," concluded Eriol. "Therefore, the 'prince' goes."
Tomoyo pouted. "That's not true. The three of you just repeated the same thing, except for Kero, whose reason doesn't make sense either. Besides, Sakura made sense with hers, didn't she?"
Eriol opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again. After a moment of silence, he muttered, "fine," and walked out of the room. Tomoyo jumped around for joy, and Sakura was still wondering if she did the right thing. Nakuru, though, was staring out the window, at a huge shadow-like shape appearing over the hills, heading straight for the castle.
Hehe... I'm ending it here!!! HA! Well... I said I wasn't going to update, and yet I'm updating everyday. *sigh* I really think I'm gonna fail English. But as a WARNING, you all should know that I can't update too often. I'm just taking advantage of the fact that my uncle is here, and my father can't boss me around, got that?
~*KawaiiSakuraAngel*~