CHAPTER 5
-Chapter 5 Isabelle
By Shinyk
Sakura never fully lost consciousness, running back to pound on the door. "Donny! Let me in right now!"
"No chance of that until the second Tuesday of next week."
"What do you want with me?" Sakura squealed. "You can't use my cards anymore."
Syaoran also started to stir, standing up and activating his sword.
"We shall see. 'What do I want you for, really Sakura? Li, aren't you tutoring her? And really, to think Mandra loved you. For such a bright boy, you have NO common sense."
"I scored 13 on the test."
"What?"
"Never mind that, you can't use the cards. They're Sakura cards now?"
"The new cards of course! Don't act so naïve." he said circling Li.
"We don't have any new cards!"
"Oh really?" Donnie mimicked and Syaoran froze. He had forgotten about the new card Sakura created, but that was it. How did he know about it or that Sakura could make new cards?
Donnie morphed into Sakura's pretty face. "The Heal" She's making new cards
"But that doesn't mean you'll be able to use them."
Donnie's sinister voice dropped so only Li could hear. "I'm going to do more than that. I'm going to steal her staff, seal her in, and make my own deck of cards. That way I can use hers and make my own."
Li's blood ran cold. His voice also dropped low and dangerous. "That will NEVER happen."
"Really?"
Syaoran nodded. "And get back into your face, it freaks me out talking to evil Sakura."
"It's not Sakura, it's me."
"Fine, you know what, just change!"
"Fine lover boy, I'll get right on it." His face then went through the grotesque stage again, and became Donny.
'Ugh, that makes me want to puke! Talk about disgusting! I mean I've seen gross-looking contortionists but this is too much!'
"Think I'm gross do you? Well you won't live long enough to see it again!" Donny's abilities had always been a bit of a soft spot for him. Syaoran's thoughts had stung. "I'll kill YOU!"
"What!"
"I heard what you thought!"
"You can read minds?" I bet you spy on Tomoyo's thoughts all the time…He really shouldn't have told me that, now he's really screwed. Syaoran also had the power to block off mind reading, along with Sakura, so now he knew Donny's secret, he could block it off consciously.
"Syaoran, Syaoran are you okay?"
"Yeah, we're about to have tea and crumpets."
Sakura concentrated. She formed her key. A magical block was on the door, but she would find away around that.. 'His power is so strong right now, I wonder what he's doing.'
Syaoran stood, using a technique he had learned after high school. The ability to build and focus all his power. He'd blow Donny to bits. Ever since he had found this new power he had been itching for a bit of evil so he could try it out, and now was his chance.
"Prepare to die Li. Say goodbye to Sakura would you?"
Li drew his sword horizontal and shouted, "Shock…" An enormous "BOOM" shell shocked him and threw him against the adjoining wall. When Syaoran looked up to where Donny had been standing minutes before there was only smoldering clothes, a small piece of a finger, an upper arm, and a few toes. 'Nobody messes with Sakura. I guess it is effective. Now to find Tomoyo.'
"Syaoran! Are you okay?" The door clicked and began to open. Sakura was relied to see the barrier down.
He quickly closed the door. "Sakura, … Umm don't come in here. There are things you don't need to see."
"Huh?"
"Just take my word for it, stay where you are and wait for me."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Trust me."
"O, okay."
As he said these words a transformation was going on before his very eyes. Donny's left over parts started changing. A hand, then an arm, and after a while; a full-bodied torso. But the torso of this body was not in Donny's form. In his place was a young girl, clothed in white with corn silk blonde hair and velvety blue eyes. The most petite form he had ever seen on a girl of her age.
"Wh-who are you?" Syaoran inquired.
"I'm Isabella!" she said in a proud manner.
"Where are you from?"
"Crystal Lake, the most beautiful place on Earth!"
As soon as Isabella said Crystal Lake an alert went off in Syaoran's head.
'CRYSTAL LAKE? That is the island that was blown up over a thousand years ago! She must be from the past… But how…? How could this tiny little girl have appeared from Donny's form? Unless he had a really feminine side no one knew about…' and then he laughed thinking it over.
"Syaoran?" Sakura said. "Are you talking to Tomoyo?"
"Uh no. You can come in now."
Sakura did and saw the bemused expression on his face and immediately asked "What?"
"Oh nothing. Um this is Isabella."
"Pleased to meet you, but Syaoran, where's Donny?"
"You know Donny?" Isabella interrupted. "Good that will make my job a lot easier.
"Erm…Yes we do, why do you ask? I take it you knew him too?"
The girl nodded.
"And from the expression on your face I also assume you didn't like him."
"And your assumption would be positively correct! He was once my betrothed, and one of the most respected guards in the Imperial Army. But when the army started becoming traitorous to Clow's descendants he stayed with it! That was against me. I'm Clow's niece you see. Ever since then the sound of his name makes me nauseous."
"You can't be Clow's niece." Syaoran spat incredibly.
"You'd have to be dead."
"Well I am from your past. Time is just a dimension you know."
"Why are you here looking for him? Seems like you'd be glad to be rid of him."
"Yes well after my parents broke off the engagement he k-k-killed them and my little brother." At that an outbreak of tears cascaded down her face.
"Oh! Are you serious! That stupid … I can't think of a word bad enough to describe that slime ball skeaze right now!"
"Sakura!" Syaoran said shocked by her outburst.
"What? Do you think I'm just going to sit here passively as she explains what that murdering creep did to her family…" As she said that her face turned as white as a sheet and she asked "And did you know a girl named Mandra?"
"MANDRA! Of course I knew Mandra, daughter of the Emperor, next in line to Empress… That is, until she ran off with Donny!"
As Mandra was saying this Syaoran's face had been going through the colors of the rainbow finally stopping at an odd shade of violet. "She ran off with D O N N Y?"
"Yes, how did you know the little wench?"
Sakura seeing yet another opportunity to badmouth Mandra sweetly spout off "Oh, she was Syaoran's fiancé."
"Ugh, how could you not see through that little innocent angelic façade of hers? She once tried to murder her own FATHER just to become Empress, talk about traitorous hussy!"
Sakura let out a loud guffaw and Syaoran turned the evil eye on her. 'I may love her but she is really pissing me off right now!'
"So, where are we anyways, one minute I was at the Crusades about to be boiled in oil for storming Mandra's castle and now I am in this dark room…"
