: Pain :

Sakura and Syaoran ran towards the boy who was causing the mayhem in the park. Syaoran ran to the left and Sakura ran to the right of the lake where the boy was. Syaoran drew his sword and at the same time, took out a small, pale yellow looking rectangular piece of paper that had Japanese characters on it that was in his pocket and threw it in front of him. He thrust his sword against the paper and yelled out, "God of Thunder!" Massive bolts of thunder and lighting came out in the middle of the paper, all aimed at the boy.

In a flash, the boy reacted, and managed to block it with a pillar of earth. Seeing this, Sakura took out one of her trusty cards and placed it in front of her. "Firey!" yelled Sakura. A tall pillar of fire rose from the ground and went towards the boy, but as before, he countered with another pillar of earth. The two elements collided and exploded with fury. Bits of flaming earth flew across the park. They both ran behind a tree to seek cover from the firey bits.

"Sakura, what do you think we should do?" said Syaoran.

"I don't know! Whatever we do, it keeps on blocking our attacks." said Sakura. Then it hit her. She had an idea. "Syaoran! I think I got it! I think this is what we should do."

After much talking, they both knew what to do and darted out of the tree. Syaoran ran in front of the boy. Sakura ran behind Syaoran. The boy saw them and used his pillars of earth. Syaoran jumped up into the air, dodging it and Sakura ran to the right side. The boy sent out more pillars and spikes at the two. Both of them were running around, dodging for their lives. Syaoran used God of Thunder again on the boy once more and the boy used another pillar to block it.

Syaoran looked at where the boy was and looked at the pond and smiled. "Let's do this!" Syaoran yelled at the boy. "It's gonna be over for your sorry ass!"

He then used God of Thunder again on the boy and a pillar came up again. Sakura saw her opportunity, and went in. She ran to the boy and was close to him. The boy looked away from Syaoran to Sakura and used a spike of earth at Sakura. It went right through her. But then, like magic, Sakura disappeared in thin air. She was gone. The boy was puzzled and quickly looked at Syaoran, who was looking at the tree where he and Sakura took cover. Next to the tree was Sakura holding a card called Mirror.

"Go Shadow!" yelled out Sakura.

Beneath the boy was no longer the blue watery pond. Instead it was nothing but a pitch black pool of darkness. Shadow, which looked like water being gushed up in the sky, engulfed the boy. As the blackness engulfed the boy in a ball, it then floated in the air. "God of Thunder!" yelled out Syaoran.

Bolts of thunder and lighting shot out to the black ball. As the electrifying attack was inches away, the huge, black ball opened up a hole and the thunder and lighting all went in and the hole became enclosed. The ball was stretched where the thunder hit. Sakura held another card and yelled out "Freeze!"

The pond became beautiful silvery white. Sakura then took out another card and yelled out "Strength!" She jumped high into the clouds and down to earth where the ball was with such force. She twisted her body and kicked the ball with unparallel power. The ball opened up a hole and the boy flew out and smashed right through the frozen lake. Large chunks of ice went up.

Sakura landed down next to the pond, and Syaoran walked over to her. They both looked at the pond. They both said nothing. All they did was look for the body of the powerful enemy that they faced. All they saw was nothing but ice and water. In the midst of it though, was a paper talisman.

"It's a summoning talisman." said Syaoran. "Only a high level magic user can do such a thing."

"Come on. I think we should leave." said Sakura.

Syaoran nodded and both of their weapons changed back to what they were. They walked to the far side and jumped over the wall and proceeded on walking home. They walked for awhile. Both said nothing.

As they got to the intersection, Syaoran said, "We should talk about this."

"Yeah we should. I'll call you tonight?" said Sakura.

Syaoran nodded. "Yeah call me. Bye Sakura."

"Bye." said Sakura.

Syaoran went to the left side of the intersection, while Sakura went to the right side of the intersection. Syaoran walked on and then he saw Sakura's best friend, Tomoyo. She wore a dress that had small roses all over it. She had long raven hair and was the same height as Sakura. Some say that they could be twins.

"What happened to you?" asked Tomoyo.

"Oh it's a long ass story. Too lazy to tell you right now. Later?" said Syaoran.

"Ok. So…how did it go in the park? Did you do everything that I told you to do?" said Tomoyo.

"Oh yeah. Did everything." He said.

"So…did you tell her? Does she know?" she said anxiously.

"I…" He paused and then said, "Didn't tell her. I was about to until I was interrupted by something."

"Oh…Well I can tell her"

"No. I should tell her." He said.

Tomoyo sighed and got closer to him and said, "It must be hard for you, can't tell Sakura about-"

"Yeah it is. And it sucks even more that I haven't told her." He interrupted.

"Come here." She said. She got even closer to Syaoran and hugged him.

Meanwhile as Sakura walked down the street on her way to home, she stopped and thought 'Oh yeah. He was supposed to tell me something. That's why went to the park. I think I can catch up to him.' She ran back and past the intersection and stopped. There she saw Tomoyo and Syaoran hugging each other. She was in a state of shock. She looked at them for awhile and then ran. She ran away form the intersection and away from the two. As she ran, she couldn't see. Her vision became all blurry. Tears of pain filled her eyes.