I am soo sorry it took this long to update but this chapter was the hardest thing i've ever had to write! I've rewritten it so many times because I wasn't satisfied with it. So i've broken it up into two parts and here's the first!!!

Quick Recap:

"Hello. I'm Sakura Kinomoto. It's nice to meet you."

Yelan grabbed Sakura's arm and guided her inside. "Welcome to our home Sakura. We were so glad that you decided to take us up on our invitation."

-.-.-

"Did you have one of your prophetic dreams again?" Yue asked walking towards her.

"I think so. I saw... destruction. I think maybe somebody really doesn't want me to be here." Sakura looked down at her hands.

Kero narrowed his eyes at Syaoran. "And we all know who that is!"

-.-.-

The dark figure chuckled as she witnessed the scene taking place in the Li mansion through the dark mirror. "Oh this is just too perfect. Everything seems to be going in my favor Card Mistress. I have two words for you: Buckle up!"

-.-.-

"There is a prophecy about them," Eriol said. "Last night, after seeing the chemistry between those two, something familiar struck me. Then I sent you two to get this book which contains the prophecy. The prophecy basically says 'There will be two who shall triumph against a great evil and together they shall save the world; however while doing so they shall cause each other the pain of a thousand lost lovers.' I haven't fully translated the prophecy because the rest of it seems to be in a different code."

"So they will do great good together but what does it mean 'they shall cause each other the pain of a thousand lost lovers'?" Yelan asked with worry in her voice.

"I am assuming that there will either be a great sacrifice that will cause them tremendous pain or that they hurt each other... emotionally," Eriol whispered.

-.-.-

"That's what I'm trying to tell you, I didn't create the maze! I don't know how I ended up there I just remember waking up and standing in the middle of the maze. And then Syaoran was there and he attacked me with the sword and tried to kill me!"

"No, I didn't!" Syaoran protested.

"He's right Sakura, it couldn't have been Syaoran you saw in the maze," Eriol explained. . "I have some more bad news. We can't find your key or any of your cards. Somehow amongst all the confusion even maze disappeared right from under our noses."

-.-.-

Syaoran turned to look at him. "What makes you think I would hurt her?"

Kero shrugged. "Sometimes we do things not because we want to but because we are destined to."

-.-.-

"I'm falling in love with you." Sakura said.

"Me too."

-.-.-

Penelope stopped a few yards away from them. "Oh how sweet, you want to protect them!" She

cackled, "It's a little bit too late Clow. I'm going to destroy them all! Nobody from your line will

be allowed to live!"She cackled.

-.-.-

"We'll watch over them," Yue said. "You stay here in case she comes back or if we... we fail." Eriol nodded and Yue and Keroberos flew after Sakura and Syaoran.

-.-.-

Sakura nodded and closed her eyes trying to pinpoint the exact location of her powers. She could feel them. She could feel the cards calling her. She tried to mentally will them to come to her. She felt the pull getting stronger. "Come to me.." she whispered under her breath.

-.-.-.-.-

Peneople gasped and fell over as Sakura's energy and cards flew from her. "She's here. Get ready."

Syaoran's lookalike nodded and got out his sword. He was dressed exactly like the real Syaoran, in traditional Chinese fighting clothes.

AND NOW...

"I see her!" cried Kero as they neared a clearing in a forest.

Penelope gave them a wicked smile. "So you found me. Now how do you plan to stop me?"

"We'll stop you. Don't worry" Syaoran told her as he jumped off Kero's back.

"Oh I never do." Penelope laughed.

At that moment Syaoran's evil lookalike jumped out of a tree and attacked him. They rolled around on the ground and stood up, facing each other. With both of them dressed the same way, it was like looking in a mirror.

Sakura gasped. "Syaoran!"

Both Syaoran's looked up at her. "Sakura be careful!" they yelled in unison then glared at the other.

Kero growled. "So that's your plan? Confuse us with the brat's double?"

"Oh not at all. That was just a distraction." With a wave of her wand magical markings on the ground of the forest lit up and trapped Sakura and Kero. Yue was able to get out of the way before he got caught up in the trap.

"Yue! Help Syaoran!" yelled Sakura.

Yue nodded at his mistress and went to help Syaoran who was fighting with his double. The only problem was he couldn't tell which was who. He couldn't sense anything. With the moon being blocked his powers had weakened.

Penelope sent a big gust of wind at him. Yue flew out of its way, summoned his bow and attacked her with his lightning rods. She easily dodged them. "That is just pathetic!"

Syaoran could barely keep up with his evil double. His lookalike was faster and stronger than him. He only had time to block incoming attacks. Sakura and Kero were attacking the force field around them but it was useless.

Yue's attacks on Penelope weren't even harming her in the slightest way but they were taking a lot out of Yue. With just one powerful blow from Penelope, Yue went flying in to one of the trees and fell down unconscious.

"Yue!" Sakura and Kero both shouted.

"Now what do we do?" asked Sakura.

"We break out and defeat her ourselves," replied Keroberos.

Penelope was chanting and creating more spells on the ground that originated as small earthquakes and spread out, but from the sound of it they got more powerful with each inch they traveled to their destination.

Sakura tried using her cards to break through the force field but their attacks only seemed to backfire on the. Running out of ideas, Sakura threw herself against the field and was thrown backwards. "Sakura!" Kero rushed to her side.

"Kero what do we do? We can't just stand here and watch Syaoran get attacked. He's going to die!" Sakura's voice cracked as tears spilled out of her eyes. "Everyone we know and love is going to die."

"Sakura you can't think like that!"

"Look at us Kero! We've lost!" She motioned toward the jumble of broken branches and trees on fire that was once a peaceful forest. The only light was coming from the symbols on the ground that were keeping them trapped. The atmosphere screamed of doom and gloom. "We've lost because I wasn't strong enough. I guess that prophecy wasn't about us... or at least not about me."

"Sakura I will not let you talk about yourself like that! You are strong! Otherwise Clow Reed wouldn't have chosen you as the Mistress of the Cards! Otherwise Penelope wouldn't have considered you a threat and tried to kill you so many times! Sakura, look at how powerful your powers made Penelope, they allowed her to escape a prison that was made with Clow Reed's magic! That means your powers are stronger than even his!" Kero stared her down. "You are stronger than her."

A sobbing Sakura looked away. "Penelope was already powerful. My powers were just an extra boost."

"Sakura stop crying! Look at Syaoran! He's fighting for you! He's gained extra strength because he's fighting for the people he loves! Your crying isn't going to get us anywhere but maybe you getting angry and doing something about the fact that the love of your life is in danger is just the thing we need!"

Sakura looked at Kero. "What if I can't?"

Kero growled. "How will you know if you won't even try?"

"Yes Sakura, what will you do?" Both heads turned to see Penelope standing outside the force field grinning at them. "I really am disappointed. I had higher expectations of you. Maybe Clow Reed was wrong, because from my point of view so far it's only been the boy that's done anything useful. Not that it matters now since his life is about to end." Penelope cackled and walked towards the battlefield of the two Syaorans.

"Syaoran watch out!" yelled Sakura but she was too late. With a wave of her staff, the real Syaoran went flying into the air and came crashing back down. Penelope tapped her staff against the ground and the earth near Syaoran started to rumble and turn into quicksand.

Syaoran began to feel his body being pulled down into the ground. He struggled against it but that only pulled him down even faster. He was too beaten and drained to use magic. His body was almost entirely under the quicksand. He took one last look at Sakura and said, " You have to save yourself and you have to save everyone else. I know you can do it." Sakura only sobbed and shook her head. "Sakura, I love you." Just then his head and the rest of his body were pulled down into the quicksand and he disappeared completely beneath the earth. The quicksand solidified. Syaoran was buried alive.

"Syaoran!" Sakura yelled out loud.

"Sakura quick do something!" Kero yelled in a panicked voice and he saw Penelope turn towards Yue. Sakura couldn't look away from the spot that Syaoran's body was lying just seconds ago. "Sakura! Don't make his sacrifice be for nothing! Fight for him!"

Sakura was in the greatest of pain imaginable: her heart was breaking and she felt like her soul was set on fire. The love of her life was gone. He was gone. That was the only thought running through her head until a cry of pain startled her. Sakura's head snapped in the direction it had come from and saw Penelope throw Yue against another tree. "Yue!" Kero was throwing himself against the shield futilely. "Kero! That's not going to work!"

Kero stopped to growl at her. "At least I'm doing something!"

That startled Sakura. He was right. She had stood idly by as Penelope killed Syaoran and now she was going to kill someone else she loved and unless she could stop it she would continue and kill everyone she loved but probably not before killing her.

She looked at Keroberos who was tired and drained but was still trying to break the barrier. Sakura looked back at the Syaoran lookalike that was leaning against a tree breathing heavily from the fight with Syaoran. Sakura's heart almost crumbled at the thought of him and to be looking at the mirror image of the person who was the exact opposite of the Syaoran she had known and loved only angered her more. Sakura suddenly felt a jolt of power. She looked over at Penelope who was still throwing around Yue and felt another jolt. She took her gaze toward her guarding who could barely stand up and felt herself grow even more powerful. She thought about all her friends at the Li mansion and her family back in Japan and suddenly she was shaking with rage.

Shewould defeat Penelope and she would save the world. She was their lasthope.