"You will be banned forever from stepping into heaven ever again."
"Do you agree?"
Emerald eyes, hard and full with tears, jerked upwards and stared into Elder's.
"Why?"she asked brokenly.
"Because it is forbidden."
The sentence echoed in Sakura's mind. Her heart thumped. But the heart was no longer hers.
Taken. Taken by Li Syaoran.
She collapsed onto the marble floor. Thressha was sobbing onto Eurika's back.
Touya's eyes flashed. He gave up the attempt to reach Sakura as he slid down to the floor with a hollow thud.
All over. Judgment taken.
All because the stupid, naïve angel was unable to control her feelings and fell in love with Li Syaoran.
"Wait! Stop!"
Elder froze. Touya froze. Thressha looked up and froze.
Tomoyo Daidouji, in her full uniform, hands-in-hands with Yue, came hurtling through the air.
"I hereby declare the Judgment being stopped!"
Chapter 4: Tokyo Revelations –
Shouko was another bad dream for Sakura when she felt her heart shattered into million pieces.
Syaoran caught Shouko's arm and went off, dragging her behind.
Shouko was smiling, even though the guy was being harsh.
There was silence after Syaoran departed.
And Tomoyo patted Sakura and lead her to the bathroom as she finally cried.
For her leaving dream, for her shattered heart…
-
"Wanna go to Tokyo?" Tomoyo asked tentatively.
"Ho-ee?"
A week later, when Syaoran and Shouko didn't show up during that period, Sakura became increasingly popular.
They started to know her sweet personality and cute traits.
With a little help of Tomoyo Daidouji, Sakura mastered the life in human world fast enough.
But Sakura never noticed that Tomoyo never thought that it was strange to have a human being not knowing what a hand phone was.
"Oh. This is a hand phone." Tomoyo had explained patiently when Sakura flipped open the device and let out a "Ho-eeee!"
Now, Tomoyo asked Sakura to Tokyo to shop.
"It is normal to shop in Tokyo on weekends." Tomoyo said unblushingly, "Humans always tend to go over countries just to shop."
Sakura nodded and made a mental note.
"So, do you want to go?"
She nodded.
"Good." Tomoyo said, satisfied, "I will pick some clothes for you…" a gleam appeared in her eyes.
"Ho-eee…"
-
Sakura, dressed fully in clothes hand-picked by Tomoyo, was looking out of the window as scenery flashed.
Tomoyo, sitting beside her, was smiling knowingly.
"Ne, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo said, "Be careful."
Sakura tensed, blinked, and turned round.
"Huh? Tomoyo-chan, what do you mean?"
"I mean, there might be snatchers around." She said, but Sakura knew it wasn't it. Just like the first day when she warned her about the seat.
She fell in love with the guy.
But what will happen then?
-
Tomoyo was frowning as she rounded on Sakura, her lips pursed.
"Sorry, Sakura-chan." She said softly, "I have an urgent meeting."
"Huh?" Being naïve as Sakura as, also know that it was quite unusual to have a meeting during Sundays and with a high school girl.
"Sorry," Tomoyo repeated, her eyes down casted, "It is urgent and I probably couldn't be back in time for dinner. Sayako," she called, and a black-dressed woman strode over, "Please escort Miss Kinomoto to the hotel please."
"Ho-ee? The hotel?" she asked, wary as she looked at Tomoyo.
"The hotel owned by Miss Daidouji's father." Sayako responded curtly, "Now, shall we go?"
Tomoyo nodded at Sakura, "Sorry."
And she departed the scene.
-
In the hotel, Sakura, rethinking the scene, decided to go after Tomoyo.
"Ummm… I know I have a card somewhere…" Sakura muttered, rummaging her bag as her eyes brightened, "Yay."
She held a card up.
"Illusion up, invisible!"
The card dissolved into peaceful ray and wrapped Sakura's body, glowing faintly as she shrouded into nothingness. She beamed happily.
"Then…" she held another card up, "Accompany on, Tomoyo Daidouji!"
She was flying through walls as the accompany spell guided her through everything. Then she found herself skidding into a stop beside of Tomoyo, who was wearing something different and was going to walk into a room.
"Whoa."
It looked like a uniform, with a very pilot-like cutting but a flow of dress flowed down gracefully just beneath her slim waist. Black in color and Tomoyo was wearing a matching hat. A badge was pinned against her belt as she pressed her palm onto a very high tech looking rectangle. It glowed and scanned her palm.
"The representative of the Dreamseer Council, of Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
Sakura froze. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. The stiff voice died as the metal door slid open. Tomoyo Daidouji, familiar yet distant to Sakura, walked into the room with good grace.
And Sakura unconsciously followed the representative into the room.
-
"The meeting may start."
Sakura saw the room was full with people in weird uniforms. Every of them came from different countries, guessed Sakura, because the different races were obvious.
Tomoyo was frowning. She sat down and scanned the room with an air of grace.
"The representative of Li Clan, from Hong Kong, Li Yelan."
A beautiful woman, dressed in traditional cheongsam, spoke. Her beautiful ebony hair shuffling.
"We had foreseen the situation just as Miss Daidouji had seen in her dreams." Yelan spoke softly.
"The representative of Magics Clanode, from America, Dean Zakner."
"DesMirth is declaring war." Zakner said. He was a man in his late thirties, with an air of superior commander.
"The representative of Yuan Qi, from China, Chong Yi-Fei."
"Declaring war to…?" Yi-Fei enquired, her sharp phoenix eyes blazing with fire. Aged in her late-twenties, she looked very intimidating yet beautiful.
"The representative of Dreamseer Council, from Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
"That would be to the human race, and to the mystic creature in skies above and to the ancient race beneath the earth." Tomoyo said. For once, everyone froze. She was looking at them, her expression serious, "Yes, DesMirth is declaring war to the Humans, Angels, and Demons."
"The representative of Li Clan, from Hong Kong, Li Yelan."
"Angels?" Yelan repeated, a look of incredulous in her face. But Sakura saw a trace of fakeness in her face. She knew it already…
"The representative of Dreamseer Council, from Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
"Yes. And Demons. But Demons and Angels were enemies. They fought the war of Living Death before the humans exist. Then, an angel and demon who fell deeply in love with each other, managed to create a new force of power of their own and create peace between them. They decided to separate the Angels and Demons."
"The representative of Yuan Qi, from China, Chong Yi-Fei."
"Yes. I know this. Then the angel sent her race to the heavens. The Demon sent his race to the earth beneath. But both races loathed each other deeply, and they will never permit an angel and a demon together."
"The representative of Dreamseer Council, from Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
"Yes. In fact, both races kill the opposite races whenever they got the chance." Tomoyo said, frowning, "So I think DesMirth might trigger them into a war and charges on the Human race."
"The representative of Magics Clanode, from America, Dean Zakner."
"Hmmm. That might be true." Zakner said, "But we couldn't underestimate DesMirth. Maybe they plan to kill both races."
The words sent a chill down to Sakura's spine.
"The representative of Li Clan, from Hong Kong, Li Yelan."
"Then we must use all our powers." Yelan said, "Chinese magic, Western magic and all magic we could use to fight DesMirth. Miss Daidouji, do you dreamsee anything?"
"The representative of Dreamseer Council, from Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
"Dreamseer must not say anything." Tomoyo said, somehow sternly, "But I only could see dreams deeply connected with certain angel and I somehow believe, our fates are in her hands."
"The representative of Li Clan, from Hong Kong, Li Yelan."
"Can you describe the dreams you saw?"
"The representative of Dreamseer Council, from Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
"The decided future cannot be told, unless the future can be changed." Tomoyo said, "I cannot tell, to prevent the future once again being interfered…"
"The representative of Li Clan, from Hong Kong, Li Yelan."
"So… are you telling us that we can do nothing?"
"The representative of Dreamseer Council, from Japan, Tomoyo Daidouji."
"No. We can try our best to fight DesMirth, but not with knowing the future."
"The representative..."
Sakura was not listening now. She was too shocked to concentrate. And her mind registered something.
What is DesMirth?
-
The meeting ended in a fight. The monotonous tone to announce who's going to talk before someone speaks was no longer working for the representatives were yelling at each other, speedy ones screaming before someone could say something.
Tomoyo swept away before the hurricane could hit her and Sakura followed her.
Tomoyo was leaving the tall building and Sakura dimly recognized the building as Tokyo tower.
They walked in silence, Tomoyo unaware of Sakura and Sakura unaware of surroundings.
And Sakura lost Tomoyo's elegant figure…
-
"Oh… what is this place?" Sakura whispered to herself, looking scared.
She braced herself and walked cautiously through the alley. She dimly noticed her Illusion spell fading as her colors revealed themselves.
Her legs moving and suddenly, her figure stiffened. Her hands unknowingly flung towards her necklace, where her key hung. But angels couldn't reveal themselves in front of humans…
"Hey babe…" a raspy voice rasped, right behind her ears as a pair of dirty hands tried to tug her body. She, with the instinct of a normal female, screamed and ran.
But it was not long before the man caught up with her easily and blocked her only pathway.
Her breath caught in her throat.
Help me……
And a pair of strangely familiar amber eyes stared right into her emerald ones, and she suddenly knew, she was safe.
Under the protection of the one she loved most…
Part 1 ends
To be continued…