Last Time
Sakura happily nodded, she really wanted to help the Harry Potter Kero told her about, and Shaoran agreed to go too. Eriol as well, but when Tomoyo wanted to go and bring Meilin with her, they weren't so sure. "Please, Eriol-kun? Sakura-chan? Shaoran-kun?" She begged, and begged until they all agreed. Dumbledore gave them letters and apparated back to Hogwarts.
"Well, let's get packing…"
Now
Harry Potter, 17 years of age, was coming back to school. This was his last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and already, he was of age. The protection laid upon him by Albus Dumbledore had gone, he was now on board the train to Hogwarts, sitting in a compartment with his friends, Ron Weasly, and Hermione Granger. Neville Longbottom was with them as well. All was silent, until the train stopped, and they heard a female's voice call, "First years, come with me! All first years, come with me!" This was because Hagrid was gone, and now they had many teacher positions open.
Once the trio was inside the castle, the sorting began. There were at least 100 first years or more, and everyone was tired from the wait. Hermione had indeed been voted Head Girl, and surprisingly, Harry as Head Boy. The sorting took longer than was expected, for Filch came in during the middle of the sorting to whisper something into Dumbledore's ear.
Just as the sorting was finished, and Dumbledore was about to stand up to make his speech, the doors flew open. In flew nine figures. Two had transparent wings, two had snow-white angel wings, two had midnight black butterfly wings, and three were standing on a floating seal.
In other words, Sakura summoned fly to give her and Shaoran wings, after them came Yue and Cerberus, then Ruby Moon and Spinal Sun, and lastly Eriol carrying Tomoyo and Meilin. The students gasped, this was not the first time someone barged in during the speech, but this was the first time a group of people flew in during the speech.
Most heads turned to Dumbledore, but he just smiled until they all landed. Eriol went up to Dumbledore and they embraced. A short embrace, and then Dumbledore turned to make his speech. "As you have seen, we have new people joining us this year at Hogwarts. Let me introduce the sorcerers of the East. Kinomoto Sakura –at this point she walked up next to Dumbledore and bowed—Li Shaoran –in which he followed suit, as did everyone else—Eriol Hiriigazawa, Meilin Li, and Tomoyo Daidouji. Then we have Tskukishiro Yukito as Yue, Kero as Cerberus,Akizuki Nakuru as Ruby Moon, and Suppi as Spinal Sun.
"They will be filling in various positions in the school, and I expect you all to respect them as you do the other teachers. They have the power to dock as many points as nessecary." He went on with his speech, but that's the most important part. After which the gang sat down at different tables. Meilin and Tomoyo both had translation spells cast over them, so it was easy for them to know what they were saying. Eriol knew English by heart, as did the gaurdians, but the two left had trouble.
"You know what! That is it!" Sakura summoned her Star Staff and took out a card. "Voice! Please let us know what they are saying and teach us the language, English! (1)" Voice came out, and surprised the students as she (2) flew over both Sakura and Shaoran, giving them what he mistress requested. Voice the returned back into card form and floated down into Sakura's hand.
So Sakura and Shaoran sat down where they were standing, at the Griffindors' Table. "Blimey! How did you do that?" A redhead immediately asked them. "I'm the cards' mistress, and they are happy to help me." Sakura replied, confused at the question. Shaoran understood what the redhead –Ron—was trying to say.
(3)"They are magicians here, not sorcerers and sorceresses. Here, they learn how to have their magic focused through a wand and released with words. They don't really interact with cards and elements like we do." Sakura nodded and turned back to Ron. "We have a different kind of magic where I live." When he nodded, he smiled again. "I'm Ron Weasly, this is my mate Harry Potter, and my other friend, Hermione Granger."
Sakura stared at Harry, then smiled. "Look Shaoran, Eriol was right, he's so kawaii!" Shaoran sweatdropped. "Now you're agreeing with Clow about that!" Sakura nodded. Hermione suddenly jumped at the word Clow. "You know Clow Reed? The most powerful magician that ever lived? But he died! I read all about him."
Sakura looked at the girl. "We only know his reincarnation, I have his cards though." She turned to Shaoran. "Where's Eriol-kun?" "The bastard's over there with dear Tomoyo-chan." Shaoran replied. Sakura made him sit as she walked over to Eriol.
It was then the Shaoran noticed that mostly everyone was staring at him. "What!" He barked and all but three turned their heads. "Um, Mr.Li, why do you hate Mr.Hiriigizawa?" Hermione dared to ask. In return, she got a sigh from Shaoran and a calm reply from Sakura, who had just returned. "Shaoran-kun is a descendant of Clow-san which means he's also a descendant of Eriol-kun. He doesn't fancy Eriol-kun too much, eh Xiao Lang?"
"Oh, thank you Miss Kinomoto." Sakura frowned a bit. "Call me Sakura! I feel so OLD being called that, though you'd probably be lucky to get away with Li-kun with him." She pointed to Shaoran. "Isn't that right Xiao Lang?" He grunted and picked up a piece of chicken. Sakura sighed, just how long was this going to last before her boyfriend felt comfortable around other people? She still remembered the first day they met. That day was one she'd never forget.
The next moment, she felt something being shoved in front of her. It was a plate of food. "You better eat Sakura-chan, you've used up most your energy with the fly card. The voice card is drawing a lot of energy from you too." Sakura accepted the food. "I have plenty left, enough to keep both of us alive for the next month or so." She told him, but gave him a hug for caring.
Soon, the feast was over, and the prefects were leading the students to their common rooms. The gang gathered up, and everyone looked at Eriol. "Follow me to our sleeping quarters." It turned out Hogwarts was well prepared for special visitors. There were nine rooms, side-by-side, all filled with the best furniture and everything the guests needed. Each on even had their own bathroom and boy was it big!
The past week, Sakura and Shaoran had been getting along fairly well, they were catching up and having fun together. Shaoran also found out about Sakura's habit of sleeping under the stars, so he created an illusion on her ceiling for it to look like the night sky. "Good night." He said to her and kissed her good-night.
AN
(1) Sakura's powers (as well as Shaoran's) have developed over the four years. Meilin, Shaoran, and Sakura are now trained in most martial arts and know good battle skills. Weapons will be introduced later on.
(2) I gave the cards genders based on how they look. I don't like calling them "it" unless I have to. (Like for maze and illusion.)
(3) For this chapter only, everything japanese and not understandable by everyone else will be italicized, but afterwards, only sentences will be and not the "-chan" or "-kun" stuff.
I hope you liked this chapter! Hope you R&R! Other ANs are in my blog!
Just to make this clear:
This takes place after the 6th book, pretty much everything happened, but Dumbledore did not die, there are not such things as horcruxes, and the castle did not fall apart. Many teachers went, who went and who's filling in for them will be in the next chappy!
