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Chapter 2

"Chiharu, what's wrong?" Sakura asked seeing the worried Chiharu.

"Their majesties are looking for you. Your brother is already in the throne room, awaiting your arrival" Chiharu answered.

"Very well" said Sakura and the two girls headed for the throne room.

'What is going on? This isn't an average meeting. I can feel it." Sakura thought as she walked through the majestic double doors that led to the throne room. Sakura saw the grave looks on her parents' faces and knew that this wasn't going to be anything good.

"Mother, father, what's wrong?" asked Sakura, worry in her voice.

Touya didn't bother to say anything because his sister already asked the question that was on his mind. Instead, he listened intently to the king and queen, along with Yukito, the royal advisor and Rika.

"Just this morning, a stone tablet was uncovered by the contractors at the contraction sight for the new village." King Fujitaka started.

"What's the problem, father?" Touya asked.

"The stone tablet foretells of the destruction of the universe." Queen Nadeshiko continued, clearly stressed.

Upon hearing this, Sakura immediately started to play with her fingers, touching the tip of her thumb to each of her fingers, moving it back and forth, using one of her many powers. Her fortunetelling wasn't limited to the weather.

"The balance of the universe has been disturbed. We need to restore it." Sakura said ominously without looking up.

"How do we restore it?" asked Fujitaka urgently.

Sakura looked up and everyone in the room looked at her.

"We need to find the 7 Harmonious Crystals. Once we have them, we can use them to restore the balance." explained Sakura.

"Then we need to find them" Fujitaka said determined.

"Your majesty, we have no idea where to start looking." Yukito pointed out. Continuing, he said, "If we search for it blindly, then we'll never find them."

"We need a plan, but I'm going to start looking anyways. I'm not wasting a second." Touya interjected.

"We need to figure out where the crystals are." said Yukito.

At this everyone looked at Sakura.

"You know I am only allowed to say so much. Heavenly secrets must be kept. The only other thing I can say is that the crystals correspond with star, moon, water, sun, earth, wind, and fire." said Sakura.

"That's a big help." Touya said making no effort to hide his sarcasm.

"I wish I can say more, but that is all I'm allowed to say." replied Sakura.

"Isn't there anything more you can tell us Sakura?" Nadeshiko asked.

"I wish I could. You know that I only know what I can speak of the future." said Sakura.

Yukito stepped forward, proposing his idea. "Since the things Sakura said can be found on Earth or are most visible from Earth, perhaps we should look there."

"Now that's just taking a wild guess, Yukito." said Touya impatiently. He walked back and forth, pacing and thinking at the same time. He brought his hand to his chin and rubbed it absently.

"That may be, but Yukito's never been wrong before, so Earth it is." Fujitaka said hoping for the best. 'This isn't going to be easy.' He thought to himself.

"But we've never been to Earth before" pointed out Touya.

"What can we do? This is a race against time." said Fujitaka.

"This is going to take a miracle, but we have to do it." Touya said determined.

Sakura furrowed her brows as her brother and father argued back and forth for the best tactics.

"Can I say something?" Sakura interjected stopping the argument.

"Of course you can. What is it?" asked Nadeshiko.

"We can search for information about Earth in the library." Sakura said aloud.

A confused look came across everyone's face. Touya looked like his sister went crazy. "Sakura, since when do we have a book about Earth?" he inquired.

"Oh. Well, I was walking in our old library. The forbidden one. I-I remember going in there in search of a book for Terada-sensei. Clow Reed. I-I found his book instead. It was shining for some reason, so I decided to take a look inside. It-it was about Earth." Sakura said slowly, making sure to pronounce all her words carefully.

"Clow Reed, he was my great-great grandfather. I-I thought that all his memoirs were lost." Nadeshiko quietly stated.

Sakura shook her head. "Apparently not."

Yukito smiled, seeming to jump up and down from excitement, though, not literally. "I shall go look into this and try to find as much information I can about Earth. I have decided to help with the search."

Touya cocked his eyebrows at Yukito. "You weren't planning on helping until now?" he said with fake surprise.

Yukito let out a laugh at this. "Of course I was planning to help."

Everyone let out a laugh at this trying to lighten up the mood, but no sooner had it started, it ended and everyone's face turned seldom again.

"Sakura, Touya, this responsibility falls upon both your shoulders. You both are to go down to Earth and find these crystals. I will go and inform Eriol and Nakuru about this current situation. I'm sure they will help." said Fujitaka.

"Yes father." said Sakura, accepting the proposition.

"We can use the help." said Touya.

"Are you sure about this?" Nadeshiko asked her husband.

"I don't see what else we can do." answered Fujitaka.

The queen sighed. 'He's right. What else can we do? We can do nothing except let this mission fall upon our children.'

"There's nothing else we can do, but be careful. I don't want any of you hurt." said Nadeshiko her voice full of sadness and worry for her children.

"I'll take care of Sakura, mother." Touya put in, pulling Sakura into a tight hug.

Sakura, Touya and the others turned to leave the throne room as they went about their chosen jobs. Soon packed, Sakura and Touya were joined by Eriol and Nakuru.

"So, where should we start looking?" asked Touya.

"I don't care where we look as long as I'm with you." said Nakuru excitedly holding onto Touya's arm. Touya rolled his eyes in exasperation, obviously not going to like this trip. The younger siblings giggled at the look upon his face.

"Are you absolutely sure there is nothing you can tell us?" Eriol asked Sakura being serious about the mission.

"I really wish I could, but I don't know anything more. I am only allowed to say so much, knowing only that much myself." answered Sakura.

"Well we better find another way to locate those crystals." Touya said.

"We can split up to cover more ground. I get to be with Touya, of course!" exclaimed Nakuru still holding onto Touya's arm. Touya let out an exasperated sigh.

"Well, my sister has a point there." agreed Eriol.

They all waited at the main gate for Yukito. Yukito was the one that was going to figure out how to get down to Earth.

"Hey! I got it!" Yukito came running toward them, waving a golden sheet of paper in the air. His handsome features were flushed from the long run.

The four royal children stopped talking and turned their attention toward the royal advisor.

"C..Clow Re…Reed. He…he wrote about some…something using a…a tele…teleport. To…to get down to…to Earth." Yukito said breathlessly.

Sakura let out a laugh. "I'm sorry. I was unable to make out what ever you just said. Take a deep breath. Well, take a few if need be, then tell us"

Yukito took a few long breaths, calming his rushing blood pressure. Taking one more deep breath, he repeated more audible words. "What I said was the book Clow Reed had written was about earth and a teleport. The thing is, there's some sort of a barrier we have to go through to get to Earth that helps in keeping us a secret from humans." He pushed his glasses back up on his nose and continued. "We need to use the teleport to get pass that barrier."

Touya punched his right fist in the air. "Then let's go! The sooner the better."

"He just doesn't want to be around Nakuru." Eriol whispered lightly to Sakura, making her giggle.

"What are you two gakis whispering about?" Touya's voice was heard loudly behind them.

Sakura turned around and smiled, trying to look as innocent as possible. "Nothing!" she revealed, opening her hands and showing her palms.

"So, where is this teleport?" Eriol asked intrigued from the new found knowledge.

Yukito cleared his throat and fixed his glasses once more. "Well, it says…" He flipped through the pages of a large ancient book made out of leather and parchment. "here that the teleport was hidden in a secret chamber."

"Okaayy. So where is this secret chamber? You could try to be a bit more specific." Nakuru piped up from next to Touya, still clinging onto his arm.

"Shut up, will you? As you can see, he's trying to find out where it is. At least he's doing something that's useful and not clinging to everyone's arm." Touya said in an irritated voice.

Hearing this, Nakuru pouted cutely, but unfortunately, Touya did not care. "I'm not hanging onto everyone's arm. Just yours. You are my fiancé and future husband."

"Yes, and notice the word 'future'." Touya peeled off her arms and kept up the pace with Yukito. "Find anything yet, Yukito?"

Yukito frowned. "I thought I saw it somewhere." He turned a few more crispy pages of the book. "Here!" He exclaimed loudly, happy and excited that he had found the map.

"Lead the way." came Eriol's reply to the flamboyant, cheerful tone.

Yukito led them through long dark tunnels, turning left and right into even dark passages. Sakura and Eriol produced two glowing orbs that gave off enough light to see into the dark tunnels. Dust and dirt covered the place from years of unkempt and unused. They turned left into a long passage way, which had neither openings nor corridors.

The small tunnel began to widen as they came upon a single stone door. It's large frame covered almost the entire passage.

"So…how are we going to open that?" Touya raised his brows.

Yukito flipped the page and began reading, trying to locate the answer.

Nakuru took a step forward. "Eriol? What are you…?"

"Sakura?" Touya came up beside Nakuru, a rare sight. (Touya willingly standing next to Nakuru.)

Eriol walked up to the door, placing his left hand on the old primordial stone interior, drawn to the power it produced. Sakura, too, walked up to it, feeling a pull that was unexplainable. She placed her right hand next to Eriol's. The door began to glow, shining a faint light that grew brighter.

Yukito looked up away from the book, his eyes wide as he repeated the passage he just read. "And the two descendents will unleash their power, drawn to its core, and forever change the fate of human kind and the clows…"

The stone entrance shook deafeningly and began to lift. Cold clean air blew from under the opening, blowing sand and dirt everywhere.

Touya looked confusingly at Yukito. "What's that suppose to mean?" He shouted over the loud noise.

Yukito didn't reply, unsure of the answer. He just shook his head and went back to gazing at the two royal children at the opening.

When the door had finally opened, Sakura and Eriol walked in, leading the rest of the group. The large chamber was lit with hundreds of glowing orbs, floating near the ceiling and radiating light. In the center of the chamber was a large intricate design etched into the stone floor.

Sakura and Eriol went down the four steps and stood on the strange black pattern embedded in the ground. There was a circle that circumscribed overlapping stars.

"Sakura don't…"

Sakura walked out into the middle with Eriol. They stood facing one another as they began to glow. The elaborate shape under their small figure began to glow as well, producing a green light and making some kind of a boundary.

"What's happening?" Nakuru yelled to the others.

"I don't kn-"

"Get in!" Yukito shouted as he dashed for the teleport.

The three eldest of the children ran for the teleport, running as fast as possible. Jumping in, the blinding light took their shapes.

Clows for the first time would walk on Earth, changing the destinies of humans. Five children, enlisting the help of any, will fight against time to save their future and the future of many.

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