Chapter 12: Is
This Where It Ends
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"Where am
I?" The brown-haired girl sat up. She was in an angel's
outfit: white dress, beautiful wings... everything except a halo.
She was
resting in a bed. "I'm... Sakura Avalon, Cardcaptor."
Sakura said. 'This
place looks like where your last stop before heaven would be.'
"That is correct, little one." A voice called out to
Sakura. She looked
over and saw two people: one, a guy with long hair, and another,
a guy
with glasses on in a regular outfit. 'Who are they?' Sakura wondered
to
herself. The guy with the glasses smiled, and the guy all in
white with
the long long hair remained solemn.
"My name is Yue, and this is the soul of Clow Reed, little
Sakura." the
long-haired guy said. Clow Reed's soul smiled. "Hello, Cardcaptor
Sakura." Sakura looked at the two anxiously. "Where
am I?" she asked,
confused. Yue smiled. "You are at my place, the place of
the pre-heavens
and clouds. I brought you here because you were dying from your
fight
with the Evil Card Magician, so I brou-"
"Wait, Evil Card MAGICIAN? Who's in the world is that? I
don't know any
magician." Sakura looked puzzled. Clow Reed frowned in memory
of his evil
twin brother. "My evil twin, The Dark Card Master -"
Sakura gasped in
memory of her little battle with him, "- had an accomplice
who made evil,
Dark Clow Magic. He took form as a human, and I sealed him as
a human
forever, but he still has his old magic. The magician was reincarnated
in
the human you know as -" Clow Reed paused. "Matt?"
Sakura asked,
appalled. "MATT, he's the Evil Card MAGICIAN? Is that why
he has all that
magic?" Yue intercepted. "Yes, Cardcaptor Sakura. Now,
that won't matter
anymore, because I have used my magic to save you and bring you
here.
Your mission right now is to go back to Earth, awaken yourself,
alert
your guardian of my following message, and then go into the time
warp."
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Sakura asked, frustrated.
"I am talking about the small price you must pay for yourself
to stay
alive and defeat the Evil Card Magician." Sakura sighed
and her face
fell. "There's a price to pay? What is it?" Yue looked
down and then
straight in her eye. "There is two: One, you must make someone's
feelings
for someone else disappear as if it never happened, and two,
i must send
you back in time back to when you were 11." Sakura blinked.
She
instinctively reached up to her necklace, where her charm was.
'make
someone forget about their feelings for someone else...' "Would
the
victim I made lose her feelings for someone get it back?"
Sakura inquired
worriedly. "Well, maybe, eventually." Yue said. He
sat down next to
Sakura. "But you only get to change the feelings of those
closest to
you." Clow Reed came over and held out a small globe. He
waved a hand
over it. Her dad's face appeared. "Mr. Avalon.", then
that vanished and
Tori's face appeared. "Tori Avalon.", then that vanished
and another
face. "Madison.", and yet another face appeared. "Meilin."
Then last of
all, a handsome young guy's face. "Li Syaoran." "These
are your five
choices for the vanished feelings." "What else will
change? I sense that
there are three changes, not two. You're not telling me something."
Clow Reed and Yue both smiled. "Your magic is powerful,
little one." Yue
said. "Another thing that will change, is that Li's name
shall be changed
to Syaoran Li, not the other way around." Sakura nodded.
"Will everyone
else closest to me remember when they were teenagers?" "No,
Sakura. Only
Li Syaoran will remember." Yue smiled and patted her hand.
So did Clow
Reed. "I should be going down now..." she said quietly.
Yue nodded. Clow
Reed took back his globe and left. "The people down in the
real world
cannot see your soul, Sakura." Then Sakura flew down from
the clouds to
the hospital, to her room, and into her body. She saw Madison
besides
her, sleeping on her hand which was on Sakura's bed. Li was also
inside,
holding her hand, a face of misery. She flew down to the room,
and
landed, retracting her wings. Li looked up from his gaze at Sakura's
face
on the bed. "I sense something," Li said slowly aloud.
Sakura quickly
went into her body.
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"I sense something,"
Li said. 'There's something in this room, a
power...' Li thought to himself. He turned his gaze back to Sakura.
He
was holding her hand. He was about to fall asleep when he felt
something
in his hand move. 'Did something move?!' Li looked anxiously
at Sakura's
face. "Madison! Wake up! I think Sakura's coming to from
her coma!"
Madison lifted her head. "Eh? You say something -yawn- Li?"
Li nodded.
"Sakura's waking up. I felt her hand move." Madison
opened her eyes wide
and stared at Sakura, then Li. "What? She is?" "Yeah!"
Then they heard Sakura mutter something. "Hey, let's listen!"
Madison
whispered. "mmph, Clow Reed, Yue..." Sakura muttered,
and her forehead
creased. "Don't feel... great... change... what... oh, feel
so hot..."
Sakura started breathing quickly and then she screamed. "No!
Don't hurt
me! Leave me alone! Go away, Matt! Go away!" And then Sakura
woke up,
beads of sweat on her forehead. Her eyes flew open, and she put
her left
hand to her mouth and sobbed quietly when she realized where
she was.
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'Poor Sakura.'
Madison thought when Sakura started to sob. "Don't worry,
Sakura, I'm here. It's me, Madison." Sakura continued crying
but hugged
Madison as well as she could. Madison looked at Li, mentally
saying to
him, 'Go get the doctor.' Li nodded, got up quietly, and left.
"Madison... oah, that hurts!" Sakura said as she tried
to sit up but felt
incredible pain and fell back down again. "Gotta get up..."
she said, out
of breath. "No, you don't, Sakura!" She pushed Sakura's
shoulders lightly
down, and brushed her cheek. "Whoa, you're burning up!"
Madison put in a
small thermometer. "108 degrees farenheit! Tori! Mr. Avalon!
Call the
doctor!" Madison shouted in fright. "Sakura has a 108
fever! Hurry!"
Madison watched as Mr. Avalon rushed away and Tori came in. "Sakura!
Are
you okay?" "I don't feel good." Sakura cringed
in pain. 'She's in so much
pain... and I can't do anything to help...' Madison thought miserably.
Sakura blinked back tears of pain and moved her arms and pushed
against
her heart. "It hurts, so much!" Sakura held back tears
of pain. Sakura
started to breath quickly in short, quick gasps. "It-- hurts
so much...
Madison... oah..." Sakura closed her eyes, but she still
felt the pain.
"Tori, Madison, help me..." she moaned.
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Two weeks later,
Sakura was in her own bed. Kero kept asking her
questions about the pain and all that stuff. Finally, Sakura
blew her
top. "Look, Kero, just to shut you up - " Sakura reached
into her purse
and pulled out ten dollars, " - Get Madison and tell her
to buy you
whatever cheap candy there is in the candy store." "Woohoo!"
Sakura called Madison, who picked up Kero a ten minutes later.
Sakura
was alone in the house. She was about to call Li over when she
remembered
what had happened. 'I still can't believe he did that.....' she
thought
sadly.
That night, Sakura
crawled into bed. The heart pains had stopped, and
now Sakura had a new view of life. She fell asleep, only to awake...
in
the clouds!
"Hello?" Sakura looked around. Everything was white,
like the last time
she had visited. "Clow Reed? Yue?" "Right here,
Sakura Avalon." Clow Reed
was smiling a bit sadly, and Yue was coming in from a door in
the clouds.
"Hello, welcome back. I have brought you here because I
have forgotten to
tell you something." Sakura looked at him quizzically. "You
haven't told
me everything?" "No, I'm afraid not. The last thing...
you have to leave
in two days. The time warp. It will take you back in time."
Sakura looked
at Yue and Clow Reed desperately. "Isn't there any way...
that I don't
have to go?" Clow Reed had tears in his eyes. "No,
I'm sorry. Matt, the
Card Magician, will use the Evil Death card and kill you in your
sleep
after the time warp closes. But you will remember us. We'll help
you in
every way possible after the time transition." Yue looked
at her. "Here
is a gift." He touched her charm, and wings appeared at
the sides of it.
"Any time you feel stressed or trapped, go to a secluded
area, then touch
your charm. Your wings will appear, and you can fly anywhere
you want in
this world. I suggest flying through the clouds. It is the most
marvelous
sensation. The angel card gave me the wings as a gift, and I
am now
giving it to you." "Angel card?" Sakura asked,
confused. "There's one
more card left?" Sakura closed her eyes. Then she woke up
again. She was
at Li's front door, wearing a light flowing summer dress that
complimented her great figure and was just right for the hot
day. 'I know
I have to tell him... but I can't. I just can't.'
li's apartment...
'DING DONG.' Melanie
watched as Li looked up at the sound of the bell.
Melanie had perked up too. Melanie was hanging on just out of
sight on
Li's bedroom windowsill. As he left the room to answer the door,
Melanie
silently slipped in through Li's window. 'Okay, part one is accomplished.
That's probably Sakura at the door. Part two: make Sakura run
away,
totally hating Li or something like that!' She grabbed her towel,
took
off her clothes, then wrapped the towel around herself. She was
exiting
Li's room when he answered. "Oh hey Sakura." Melanie
sauntered up next to
Li. "Li, what's going on?" Melanie looked innocently
at Sakura, then
smiled triumphantly at her. Melanie held onto the corner of her
towel
loosely. Li looked at Melanie right after she spoke and did a
double
take. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Melanie smiled innocently.
"Oh, just
waiting for you to come back inside."
Sakura watched. "I knew I couldn't trust you Li," she
murmured sadly.
She turned away slowly, as if deciding something, then ran as
fast as she
could down the stairs. "No! Sakura!" Li was about to
run when Melanie
grabbed him. "Leave me alone!" Li yelled, then he pulled
free of
Melanie's grasp and ran down the stairs after Sakura. "Sakura!
Wait,
Sakura!" he cried anxiously. 'Mission accomplished,' Melanie
thought
happily.
Li ran into the
bright sunlight. He looked quickly left and right.
'Where is she?' Then he heard someone scream. Sakura stood paralyzed
in
the street, and a truck was coming at her full-speed! "SAKURA!"
Li ran
quickly into the street, oblivious of the cars around him. He
grabbed
Sakura and used his momentum to get himself and Sakura out of
the busy
street. They both fell onto the sidewalk, and felt the whoosh
of air
after the truck careened away down the street. Li was still holding
onto
Sakura, and their faces were inches away. He blushed slightly.
'Please
don't turn away from me, Sakura...' he thought.
Sakura looked at him and muttered, "Thanks." Then she
turned her head
away and looked at the grass. Li got up, then pulled Sakura up
and sat
her next to a tree. "Sakura, I know you think I'm cheating
on you."
Sakura didn't respond, but Li could see how her eyes moved into
a sad
face after his statement. "But I didn't. I found out from
Madison that
some of Melanie's friends dared her to kiss me. Madison tried
to talk
them out of it, but they didn't take back the dare. You can even
ask
Madison if you don't believe me." Sakura was looking out
at the street,
but she turned to face him. "I don't know if I should believe
you.
Melanie is so into trying to take you away from me, maybe I should
just
let her so our relationship won't have any more bumps."
'Nooooo...' Li
thought. "I'm not going to let you, Sakura. I still and
always will love
you and only you. No one else. No matter what happens, I'll stay
by your
side and protect you." Sakura kept looking at him, a faraway
and sad look
in her eyes. Then she got up. "Here. Come with me."
'Where is she taking
me?' Li wondered curiously.
at the secret beach...
Li looked at the
sparkling water and the bright sun incredulously. "This
place is awesome," he told Sakura. Sakura was holding a
card. Then she
put it back in the book, which she put in the safe and then placed
in the
sand. She covered it with sand. Then she stood up and walked
over to
where Li stood. She looked down at the sand, tears in her eyes.
Li
grabbed her hand and held it to his chest. Sakura looked up.
Li looked
into her eyes. "You're trying to tell me something. What?"
'I can't tell him!
It will break his heart...' Sakura thought sadly. She
couldn't seem to get the words out of her mouth. "I... I..."
Sakura
stuttered out. 'But I have to tell him. The fate of this world,
all that
is good, is in my hands.' Sakura looked at Li's hand, which held
her own
gently. 'I have to tell him. Everything that happens in the future
depends on it.' As Sakura started talking, tears streamed down
her
cheeks. "I have to go in two days." Sakura said. Li's
eyes opened wide.
"Whaat? Where?" Sakura blinked, which send cascades
of tears down. "It's
not the regular kind of going though. Me and you are going back
in time.
Everyone is going back in time, but only us," Sakura touched
his cheek
sadly, "-will remember our life as teenagers. We wouldn't
have known Matt
or Melanie or any new kids. Just our regular 11-year-old life."
"Then
what's the difference? We'll still continue our relationship.
It'll be
the shock to the others, I know, but we'll still be together."
Sakura
shook her head.
"Yue rescued me before I died. He has to change some things
in our life
first though. One, go back in time. Two, your name is Syaoran
Li, and
Three..." Sakura's voice stopped, but she kept crying. Li
searched her
eyes. "What is the third?" Sakura took a deep breath.
"I have to make
someone's feelings for someone disappear. I have chosen those
feelings to
be mine... for yours."Li's mouth dropped. "But why
jeopardize our
relationship?" Sakura's eyes blazed like fire through her
sadness. "No
one - " she said fiercely, " - will do anything, get
hurt in anyway, or
have their life changed at my expense. No one!" Then Sakura
broke down
crying, and forgetting her past problems with Li, pulled him
close and
hugged him. She stepped even closer to give him a kiss on the
cheek.
'I'm not going
to let our problems get in the way of the only remaining
time we have together!" Li thought determinedly. As Sakura
stepped up to
give him a kiss on the cheek, Li took his free hand to turn Sakura's
face
so that their lips met. He hugged her close, wrapping his left
arm around
her waist, and his right hand on the back of her head, gently
guiding her
toward him. He could feel Sakura hesitating about the way her
kiss turned
out, but she pulled her arms around his neck, staying in the
kiss. They
stayed like that for awhile. 'It feels so good to kiss the person
I
love...' they both thought.
That night, Sakura
stared out the window from her bed. She couldn't
sleep. Kero was sleeping next to her, holding onto a candy bar.
She
remembered the angel wings. 'I haven't used them yet...' Sakura
thought.
She got up quietly, tucking the blanket around Kero. She quietly
opened
the window and stepped on the windowsill. Then Sakura jumped
off and
touched her charm. Angel wings as white as snow spread from her
back, and
Sakura flew high into the sky. It was like the fly card... but
Sakura
felt very peaceful. She closed her eyes sadly. A bright white
symbol
glowed on her forehead, then faded. A glowing white dove symbol...
next morning...
Sakura woke up.
Kero was playing video games and he was beating everyone
and was on the last boss. As soon as he saw that Sakura was awake,
though, he turned off the game. Sakura stared at Kero. "Whaat?"
he asked,
confused at the strange way Sakura was looking at him. She pointed
at the
game system. "You didn't save it again, Kero." Kero
looked at the system,
slowly registering what she had said. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
he howled.
Sakura started laughing, the first time in days. Kero smiled
too, and he
laughed along with her.
For the rest of the day, she swam with Madison at the beach,
bought
triple-scoop ice cream cones for herself and Kero, shopped at
the mall
with Meilin, went to the theater with Rita and Chelsea, then
climbed onto
the roof in her pale sunlight-colored white dress to think after
eating
dinner. Both Tori and Mr. Avalon were out, working. Sakura had
seen Tori
at the diner when she was with Madison, and she had seen her
dad at a
museum when she had brought Kero along for treats and tell him
what was
going to happen.
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"Hey monster.
What are you doing here with Madison?" Tori had asked her.
"We're just having fun, Tori. Hey, why do always change
your jobs. It's
like you have a new one everyday." Sakura said curiously.
"Yeah." Madison
giggled. Then started laughing quietly.
Tori glared at Sakura. "Why are you interested in that brat
of yours
anyway? He is the most disgusting thing in Japan right now. Probably
in
the world, too." Sakura kicked him in the shin. "Well..."
she started
sweetly. "If you really hate him that much, I'll bring him
to our house
more often and kiss him in your face so you can't say or do anything
about it. Besides, Dad really approves of MY date. If he ever
saw
yours..." she started laughing and left with Madison, eating
their
chocolate sundaes. Tori glared at her back. 'Grrrrrrrrr....'
"Hey Dad!
What are you doing at the museum?" Sakura yelled to him
happily through the quiet museum. Her voice echoed through the
hall. She
blushed crimson, and ran quickly to him with Kero in her bag.
"Oh, I'm just looking at these models of old pyramids. Remember
that
demonstration I gave your class years and years ago?" He
laughed at the
memory, then smiled. "Tonight, you cook dinner, alright
Sakura?"
"Sure! I'll cook a feast! AND dessert too." she grinned.
"Just make sure it's edible Sakura." Then Mr. Avalon
opened the door and
walked into the storage room.
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Sakura stood atop
the roof, the wind sweeping her dress into soft
billows. The stars twinkled gently but brightly. She found the
North
Star, then the little dipper, the Big Dipper, and some stars
that
outlined a picture somewhat like Kero. She looked around, making
sure no
one was watching, and then touched her charms. Beautiful white
wings
appeared from her back. She jumped, and flew quickly in the direction
of
the secret beach. It was nearing midnight... the time when she
would go
back in time... the time when she would forget Li...
Five minutes before
midnight, Sakura stood at the edge of the beach, her
earrings and Clow Book in one hand, and her sealing wand in the
other.
'One more card...' she thought. {a girl who looks just like me,
standing
the way I was on my roof, tears falling from my eyes...} "Forever
Card."
The card appeared in her hand. She tucked it in with her other
cards. She
touched her charm, returning her sealing wand into it. The wings
appeared. She started to jump, when...
"Sakura!" Li ran up to her, breathless. "Kero
said you were going to be
here." Sakura looked at him sadly. She took out the forever
card. "It
might not seem useful... but when it is needed, great power will
come
from it." Sakura held the card, and put her index and middle
finger on
the center of the picture side of the card. Li did the same on
the other
side. Sakura closed her eyes, wishing something for the card,
and the
symbol of Clow appeared underneath them. Sakura was disappearing,
fading
in and out, in and out, like a vanishing star. "Clow Reed...
Yue... I'm
ready to leave now..." Sakura's voice choked, and tears
began streaming
down her cheeks. The Clow Book and earrings went into her charm.
She
opened her sad, glistening eyes. "Look at the shooting star,
Li. I'll
never forget you." Sakura kissed him on the lips, her fingers
gently
brushing his cheek, and she disappeared, just as a shooting star
shot
across the sky. The Forever Card fluttered to the ground. Li
watched the
star vanish. "Forever, Sakura. I'll love you forever."
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omigosh. I actually
finished it! Yes yes yes yes yes! There's going to be
another story though (of course duh). I don't know what I'll
call it...
but if you have any title suggestions, please Please PLEASE send
it to
the email address below! Really, I'm not joking. I'll pick the
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For
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