Tori's house. . .
Sakura's POV:
Walking up to the door of her house she could very faintly hear voices coming from the inside. It was getting late, she was late, but with a good reason. She had baton practice after school that day and a turnoment was coming up that week. She had a very good reason to be late.
Opening the door, the voices got louder and they were coming from the living room. Obviously her brother's voice and probably Julian's voice, but there was a third, a higher voice then the other's.
"For you have slain a great number of my army, and you have no right to claim the throne, for you are not the rightful King." Said one voice.
"But I am! I have worked harder than all in the land to bring us prosperity and life. And this is how you repay me? I am. . ." Second voice paused, deep in thought.
Slipping off her shoes, Sakura slowly walked into the living room to see what was going on.
"Darn it!" Said Tori with his back faced to Sakura. "What is it Mina?"
"I am disappointed in you." Said a brown haired girl, holding a script of some kind.
"Right, 'I am disappointed in you General." Tori said confidently.
"Tori I'm home." Sakura said as she stepped into the room.
"Hey Sakura." Julian said looking up from his studies.
"Hey Squirt, how was practice?" Tori smiled.
"Fine." She scowled at him, "Who is this?" She asked.
"This is," Tori started,
"Mina. I'm Mina pleased to meet you." The girl finished.
"Man, you're good at that." Tori scratched his head.
"At what?" Mina frowned.
"Finishing other people's," Tori started.
"Sentences for them?" Mina asked
"Yeah." Tori grumbled.
Seeing that the two were having a good time, Sakura silently slunk up to her room, where Kero was waiting for her.
"Your late." He said, hovering a couple of feet above her bed.
"I had practice, you knew that." Sakura said placing her book bag on her desk, and sprawling out on her bed (careful not to squish Kero).
"Are you still worried about the cards Sakura?" Kero asked lovingly, coming over to float by her head.
Closing her eyes, she answered him. "Yeah kinda." She sat up, "I mean, I don't think I'm prepared for anything yet, my life is just starting to settle down now, and," she paused "I don't want anything to happen to it. Kero, I just don't think that I'm strong enough anymore!" she half yelled sitting up quickly.
Kero placed his paw on Sakura's forehead, "Your as strong as you were when I nominated you to be the master of the Clow Sakura, and you still are. The fire that you had then is still in you now, you just have to find it. Okay?"
Sakura smiled at the little lion, "Okay." she said as she shook his paw
"Now, did you bring me some pudding?" He exploded.
Meanwhile, back downstairs. . .
Tori's POV
"Think she's okay?" Julian said, obviously worried about her.
"She's fine." Tori replied.
"Well," Mina said, "I better be going then, it is getting a little dark."
"Okay" Tori said, "see you tomorrow then!"
"Okay, keep practicing the play." Mina winked, "I know. You'll do good on it!"
"Yeah, yeah." Tori said waving at Mina for her to get out.
One last smile and she was out the door.
"You know, I think she likes you Tori." Julian said after a pause.
"Naw." Tori replied, he paused, "You think so?" looking over at is friend
Julian nodded.
Maybe. . .just maybe he thought as he glanced at the time. 9:34 pm.
"Squirt! Time for bed!" Tori yelled up the stairs.
"I'm getting ready, and don't call me squirt!" Sakura yelled down from the top of the stairs.
Tori scratched his head, "Gosh, she is annoying sometimes."
Julian nodded his agreement and got up, gathering all of his homework he walked toward the door. Tori followed.
"Well, see you tomorrow then." He said not looking up as he slipped into his shoes.
"What is tomorrow?" Tori wondered aloud.
"It's Sunday." Julian said getting his coat on.
"Oh, right." He answered.
"Bye." Julian said as he went out the door.
"Bye." Tori said standing on the first step.
That's when Tori saw something near Julian, a shimmer almost like a glow of some kind. Then it hit Tori what they were, faint shadows of snow white wings. Tori smiled as he closed the door. Light streamed through the bottom of the doorway. Tori opened the door a crack, and the only thing he saw was a figure flying into the night on a pair of white silhouettes. Closing the door, Tori came back inside, and headed up stairs for bed.
Sunday, a day off and the reveal of an enormous secret. . .
Tori sat up in bed, the sun streamed through the blinds making shadow and light stripes across his face. Tori himself was almost drenched in sweat from a dream that he couldn't wake up from, until just now.
He was dreaming about something, something about Sakura, the cards and the guardians. Yue was telling him something, important. Something about someone close to him. Mina? No, it couldn't be Mina. Could it?
"To-ri!" came a voice from outside his door. "It's time for breakfast sleepyhead!"
"Fine. I'll be down in a minute Squirt!" he replied with as much sense as he could.
He could hear a soft grunt come from the opposite side of the door, and heard heavy footsteps go off downstairs. He smiled as he imagined his sister's face as she walked off.
Not thinking about what to wear, he slipped into a simple white tee and put on some of his age old washed-out jeans.
I wonder what Yue was trying to tell me. . . Tori thought on his way down the stairs, until a voice broke his thoughts.
"Look dad, Tori finally decided to get up." Sakura teased.
"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up Sakura." Tori sighed, clearly not in the mood.
"Want some coffee Tori?" asked his father.
"Sure dad." Tori replied, picking up the morning newspaper, with the headline reading "Winged Menace Stalks the Night!"
Tori curiously opened up the paper to the page the article was printed on. It read as follows:
Last night a number of people reported seeing a winged creature fly above their homes. One has claimed that it landed on they're house top in the dead of the night. Hearing a soft thump on the roof was all it took for Freeda to open up her window and look up to the sky. "It was like a human but I really couldn't tell because o the enormous wings that it had. I swear it was trying to get in my house!" she says. After scaring off the beast with a firecracker that woke a few neighbors that night, she quickly contacted her local police station and reported the event. This is a good--
Tori read only this far before he was interrupted by a face coming over top of the paper's main fold.
"What you reading, Giraffe-lags?" Sakura inquired.
"None of your business, and if you don't move I'll have to do something drastic." Tori smirked.
"Oh, yeah. And what would that be." Sakura pouted.
"I can't tell you." Tori said getting back to the paper.
"Why not?" She asked.
"Because I like to torture you, Squirt." He said playfully.
"That's totally not fair Tori!" Sakura said.
Tori put his hand on her head, "I know." He replied.
"So, is Mina coming over?" Sakura returned calmly.
"Yeah, so." He said coolly.
"Is she coming over to do homework with you, or something else?" Sakura said with a devilish grin on her face.
Tori was taken aback by this statement. "Of course she's only here to do homework with he and Julian."
"Sure." Sakura said getting up from her seat and up to her room to get ready to go out with Li.
Tori groaned, "Dad," Tori said. "Did I have to have a sister?"
Tori's father laughed. "I didn't have a choice." He smiled.
"But I am! I have worked harder than all in the land to bring us prosperity and life. And this is how you repay me? I am disappointed in you General!" Tori said.
"Great Tori! You finally memorized most of your lines!" Mina clapped. "You did great!"
Tori scratched his head, "You think so?" he said, clearly embarrassed.
Mina nodded.
"Thanks." he said.
Sakura came dashing down the stairs.
Tori stared at her, "Where are you going Sakura?" he yelled after her as she headed for the door.
"Over to Li's!" Sakura said over her shoulder.
"Okay, careful on the sidewalk, it gets slippery in places." He said as she was almost out the door.
"Okay!" was the last thing he heard as she disappeared into the cool Autumn morning.
"Your sister has a crush?" Mina said confidently.
"Yeah. But how did you know?" Tori asked.
"Just by the way she looked." she said.
"Oh." Tori said.
"Anyone home?" Julian said coming into the house.
"Yeah." Tori said getting up to see his friend.
"Sakura passed me on the way by, she was like a twister." Julian said handing his coat to Tori.
"Really?" Mina spoke up, "I thought she looked like a hurricane."
"Mina's here?" Julian whispered to Tori.
"Yes." Tori replied.
"Yes Mina's here." Mina said coming up behind the two.
"Hi Mina." Julian said innocently. Tori smiled sheepishly.
"Come into the living room Julian." Mina said practically pulling him.
"Okay." Julian said, clearly not having a choice.
Tori followed the two and they all sat around the coffee table in silence.
Finally Mina spoke, "I have something to show. . .well tell you."
Silence.
"I know about Yue." Mina said in one breath, and continued. "I know that Sakura is the Master of the Clow and I've seen her capture all the cards. I saw all of her adventures and I saw you, Tori, give your powers to the one that was in the most need of it. Yue. Right now. . .and right now, I have to speak with him Julian." Mina finished.
Julian rose and placed himself in front of Mina. The bright light of the seal appeared beneath him. Sprouting wings and quickly transforming, Julian became his other self, the guardian of the Moon, Yue.
"Yes?" he said in a smooth voice.
Mina looked surprised, thankful and relieved all at once. Tears started coming to her eyes. "It's really you." she said, a light coming from beneath her, bright snow white wings now coming from her back. . .
Author's notes: Hi! I hope you like it! If you could R&R I would like it thanx!
Anyway, it's good ain't it? Yeah, even I get goosebumps when I read it too, and I wrote it! I was listening to Reason-Gundam Seed Destiny, Fukai Mori-Inuyasha and True Light-DNAngel. . .It's freaky when you do that, it really gives you energy somehow. . .or I just like the lyrics either one.