Author's note: Here's the second chapter. A huge thanks to my reviewers. Sorry for the delay.
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS ;;
Chapter 2:
The two princesses had been walking for two hours in the forest guided by the lantern that Sakura had snuck from the castle.
"Tomoyo, I think we're lost." Sakura whispered.
"We need to find a place to rest tonight. Then tomorrow morning we can go to the town in the outskirts of this forest" replied Tomoyo.
"We can leave the horses outside this cave and look for firewood." Eriol suggested.
Syaoran grunted in reply and the two of them walked into the darkness.
After one hour
"I've seen that tree before" Syaoran told Eriol.
The two of them looked at each other.
"We've been walking around in circles" shouted Syaoran furiously, "You don't even know how to read a map."
"You were the one who copied the map out. I can't even understand what is scrawled here." Eriol retorted.
"Then you should have given it to me"
"If I had done that we'd be more lost than we are now!"
The two of them continued to bicker in loud voices and their voices echoed through the forest.
"Did you hear that, Tomoyo?" Sakura clutched Tomoyo.
"Do you think it was a wolf?"
"They say that there are werewolves in this forest."
"I've heard that at night we could be attacked by vampires"
"Tomoyo, I'm scared"
In her fear Tomoyo dropped the lantern she was carrying into a puddle of water and the fire went out with a sizzling sound.
"Great, just to make our day even worse," Sakura mumbled into the darkness.
Suddenly a loud howl was heard (at least it sounded like a howl) from somewhere in front of them.
Sakura and Tomoyo shrieked and started to walk backwards slowly.
Sakura was shivering and Tomoyo was pale.
"Stop shouting, Syaoran. You're shattering my eardrums" Eriol cried to his cousin.
"Well, it's all your fault we got into this mess"
"Don't blame me. If I'd copied out the map we would have been in that town ages ago"
Syaoran suddenly signaled his cousin to keep quiet.
"Hear that. Footsteps." He whispered.
Te two of them whipped around holding the firewood they'd gathered as a weapon and slowly walked backwards.
They kept walking backwards till they bumped into someone or something.
The girls bumped into something and screamed loudly sitting down covering their ears. The boys jumped on hearing their piercing scream.
"Who—who's there?" Sakura stammered.
"A girl!" a gruff voice said exasperated.
"So what if I'm a girl," Sakura retorted huffily.
"Calm down," Tomoyo muttered trying to clutch her but her hand grasped someone else's arm; she let out a cry and stepped back.
"It's alright," a kind voice said bringing out a bottle with fireflies to provide some light. The two girls stared in the dim light at the two strangers that had bumped into them. The two boys seemed of their age. One of them had chestnut colored hair and amber eyes, while the other had dark blue hair and sapphire eyes and wire rimmed glasses. However annoyed the girls were, they had to admit, both the boys were cute, very cute.
"What are you doing here?" Syaoran asked surprised that two girls were wandering in the forest at this time of the night.
"We're—" started the girl with emerald eyes, her anger not subsided yet.
"Just a couple of orphans looking for work" her friend cut in quickly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. We're travelers looking for work too," Eriol said anxious not to be left out of the conversation for he had been drooling at the girl with amethyst eyes and gorgeous dark hair.
"It's going to rain," the dark haired girl said.
"There's a cave up ahead. Let's get shelter there," Syaoran said.
"We don't need your hel—" the emerald eyed girl started but her friend interjected again
"Thank you, very much," and got a glare from the other girl.
"What are your names, by the way?" Eriol asked.
"I'm Violette and this is Flora," the girl with dark hair said. "And you?"
"I'm Li," Syaoran said unable to think of anything else but immediately regretted it as the girl named Flora said, "Li? As in the royal family?"
"No he means Lee as in L-E-E" Eriol said, "and I'm Eli,"
Normal POV
"Why do they have to tag along with us?" Syaoran grumbled.
"Well, we never asked for your help," Sakura replied as though she had been waiting for an opportunity to fight.
"It's not that I don't want to help, but I just don't want two girls tagging along," Syaoran said, "Girls are sissy, crying and wailing if they broke a nail or tore their clothes," he said thinking of his sisters back home.
"Well I'm a girl and I don't whine if I break my nails or tear clothes. And I hate wearing frilly dresses they're so uncomfortable." Sakura replied.
"Hmph" Syaoran grunted not knowing what to say because he was surprised, well this girl did seem like a tomboy with short auburn hair and that defiant look in her eyes, quite different from the princesses who had come to the castle before with their snotty attitude and flirty voices. Yuck!
"Hey, S—I mean Lee! I found the cave" shouted Eriol in glee
"Good, you did something sensible for once"
"Shut up"
"It's starting to rain" Tomoyo put her hands over head.
"Let's go inside, To—Uh—Violette" Sakura said a little doubtful.
Tomoyo nodded vigorously, "Right, Flora" she stressed on the name hoping that she remembered it.
The two boys stared curiously as the girls walked inside the cave, while their horses slept outside.
"I must say I think Violette is pretty cute, don't you?" Eriol muttered.
"Whatever" Syaoran replied but he felt that the other girl was better.
"Flora" he mumbled. Nice name. Suits her. She's pretty just like a flower. He hit himself on the head. What am I thinking? I'm supposed to hate girls.
The two princes lit a fire.
"That should keep us going for the night" Eriol looked pleased with himself.
"Let's sleep then it's already pretty late" Tomoyo suggested.
So the four of them spread their shawls on the ground and huddled around the fire to sleep. "Are you warm?" Eriol asked Tomoyo.
"She's fine, thank you" retorted Sakura before Tomoyo could reply.
Soon the tired princesses and princes fell asleep.
Syaoran woke up. He thought he had heard something. He heard it again. In his anxiety he accidentally kicked Eriol on the face.
Eriol grunted and woke up, "What the heck are you doing?"
"I thought I heard something" Syaoran grinned, Eriol looked so funny.
"It's not funny. I say the fire's gone out." He said noticing suddenly.
"Great discovery" muttered Syaoran exasperated and frowned, "Hear that?"
"Yeah"
Syaoran screwed his eyes trying to see who or what it was. Then he realized.
He fumbled to remove his traveling cloak.
"What is it?"
"The girl," He whispered to Eriol, "She's shivering" He threw his cloak over Sakura and Eriol did the same putting his cloak over Tomoyo. He yawned, "Let's get some sleep"
"Right"
"Next time try not to kick me"
Next morning.
Sakura could feel the sunlight on her face. She turned over pulling the cloth that covered her body over her face. It was warm and had a nice smell. She then remembered that she had not got a blanket and that she was in some kind of a cave in a forest.
She sat up blinking because of the bright light and looked at the cloth. It looked like a cloak. It's Lee's cloak she realized, surprised. She folded his cloak and kept it beside him. Sakura noticed that Tomoyo had already gotten up.
"Tomoyo?" she called out softly.
Tomoyo came inside the cave "Good morning, Sakura."
"Let's go before those idiots get up" Sakura said.
"Right" replied Tomoyo a little reluctantly.
"SYAORAN!" a loud scream echoed through the cave, "Get your feet off my face!"
"Shut up, the girls might hear us" Syaoran said getting up and rubbing his eyes.
He looked around, "Looks like they've gone" he muttered.
"You still haven't taken your feet off my face."
Syaoran looked at his feet which was currently on Eriol's cheek and laughed, "Who asked you to keep your head where my feet are?"
"It's the other way around you mean" Eriol muttered as the two of them sat up and stretched.
"Come on" Syaoran straightened up pulling his cloak which was neatly folded. "We need to get to that town as soon as possible"
Their horses were awake. Syaoran untied Leon and Pegasus. "Eriol, Hurry up for god's sake" he shouted impatiently
"Too bad the girls left" Eriol said sorrowfully.
"I'd say good riddance," Syaoran retorted mounting his horse.
"Would you really?" Eriol said with an evil glint in his eye, "I don't remember you saying such things, when you gave her your cloak last night,"
Syaoran blushed and glared at him, "Well, you did the same thing too," he said indignantly.
But Eriol had already left, grinning all over his face.
Syaoran came next to him and grunted, "You should have seen the look on your face when you were looking at that girl what's her name—Violette, I was sure that drool was dripping from your mouth,"
Now it was Eriol's turn to go red. "I wasn't drooling," he stammered trying to sound defiant. Syaoran was laughing helplessly, while Eriol was cursing under his breath. But his face brightened.
"Miss Violette, we meet again,"
Syaoran looked up and saw the two girls were walking in front and Eriol had already got off the horse and was chatting with them or rather with Violette. Syaoran rode up to him and said, "We've to go, hurry up."
"Mr. High and mighty has arrived," Sakura scorned.
"Talking to you is a waste of time,"
"In that case get lost! We don't want you here," she replied.
"Would you like a lift?" Eriol asked Tomoyo.
"No, she wouldn't," Sakura replied for Tomoyo.
Eriol looked at her, "I was asking her."
"You were going to say that weren't you?" she glared at Tomoyo.
Tomoyo looked at both of them and then said to Eriol, "Thank you, but no, I'd rather walk,"
Sakura looked triumphantly at Eriol who looked like a giraffe with a sore throat. "Can we go already!" Syaoran yelled.
Quarrelling loudly, the four of them noticed suddenly that the road was divided in two separate paths.
"We're going this way," Sakura said firmly pointing to the road in the right.
"Fine then we'll go the other way. I never want to see you again."
Sakura had run out of abuses so she childishly stuck her tongue out at Syaoran and stalked off dragging Tomoyo.
Eriol seemed a little hesitant but followed Syaoran anyways.
Little did they know that the two roads led to the same town!
Author's note: That's the end of chapter two stretches a bit its midnight, so I'm off to bed. I've got 200 pages to read for my physics exam!
Anyways sorry if their names were dumb, couldn't think of any thing better shrugs. Well I've done my duty in posting this chapter so you do yours and review!
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