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In the next scene, we have chapter 15. "I'll fight till the end for the sake of your safety..." Chapter 15 Tap, tap, tap, tap. That was the sound of Chocy walking anxiously to the next destination along a road between two big farms. His steps are wiggling and unsteady, drops of salty sweats are rolling down his head. Hot sun was cruelly beaming down on hm; he struggled to go on. Every step he took he made a "huff" and "puff" sound, so when he walks, he sounds like the following: "Huff…puff…huff…puff…" His eyes are becoming swirls. Sakura looked at him, and said. "You know, I think we should let Chocy rest a little." Then finally, he collapsed, leaving two "+" marks on his eyes. "You think?" Syaoran teased. They found a mini out door teahouse near by, so they sat down, and had a little rest. Chocy was choking down all the water and nut so fast, that he didn't even chew. "Slow down, Chocy, you'll choke." Syaoran warned him as he and Sakura sat at a table next to Chocy. They ordered some tea and snacks. Sakura asked as the waiter pour some tea into their cups. "We've been seeing nothing but farmlands around this area, do you think that the landscape will change as we head north?" Syaoran shook his head. "I don't know...anything can happen around here." The waiter over heard them. "Sorry, but are you two heading north?" Sakura and Syaoran both nodded. The waiter continued. "It's a great desert north from here, so you better be prepared." Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other, then look back at the waiter. "Desert?" They asked. The waiter nodded. "It won't take you that long to cross, but on you way, you might run into sand storms. You'll need something to cover your face or your nose will be fill with sand by the time you cross it." Sakura made an expression. "Ill! I don't want that!" The waiter nodded. "So you better geared up!" Syaoran asked. "What do you suggest?" The waiter walked back to the teahouse, and came out with two blankets. "You'll at least need these." He put them on the table, and lifted up three fingers. "It'll be thirty ominian (unit for Ometin dollars)." "No way! That expensive?" Syaoran shouted. The waiter, or a salesman now, leaned on the table. "It's the best offer around, these are special sand proof blankets." He patted the blankets to show how strong it is. Syaoran looked at Sakura, and said. "I'll just take one." The salesman reacted. "What? But there're two of you." Syaoran reached into his pocket, and gave him fifteen ominians. "I know." he said, handing the money to him. "We'll share." The salesman took the money and gave him one blanket. Sakura looked at Chocy, who's choking down food and water, and asked the salesman. "Do you have something for our chocobo?" "Hmm…chocobos…now let see here." He put his hand on his chin, thinking. "Oh," he though of something, as he ran into the storage. "I got just the thing!" He came out with something like a mask in chocobo head shape with gaggles around the eyes area. "The Chocobo sand proof mask should do the trick!" He said, putting it on Chocy. "Wa…wark??" Chocy said under the mask. Sakura walked closer to him, and asked. "Is it comfortable, Chocy?" Chocy wiggled his head around, and shook its shoulders, making a "Wark, wark" noise indicating, "It's okay." "We'll take it!" Sakura said, although Syaoran's the one who was paying. Syaoran looked at the salesman. "How come you've got something like a mask for Chocy and only a blanket for us?" ~~~~~ The waiter (or salesman) was right, as they head more to north, the landscape are surrounded by desert. Wind mixed with sand blew on their faces, and the wind got stronger as they went. Syaoran thought it was time, so he took out the blanket, and covered Chocy's face with the chocobo mask. Sakura sat in front of him with both legs on one side, so Syaoran can cover her with the blanket. On arm holding her, the other holding on to Chocy, he commanded Chocy to start walking. The wind got stronger and stronger, blowing more sand into
their faces. Chocy didn't really seem to mind since he had his
Just then, Sakura thought of something. "RELEASE!" She commanded the key to return to its original form. She took out a card, and used it. "Sand!" the card turned to a lovely sand fairy that's dressed in ancient Arabia clothes. She surrounded them, and formed a sand barrier, so the sand can't get to them. Sakura took the blanket off her face, and took a deep breath. "Phew, that's better!" Syaoran also took the blanket off his head. "Yeah, we should've done this from the beginning, so we don't need to pay for over priced blankets. He jumped off Chocy, and tried to take off his mask, but Chocy refused, and shook his hand off. Syaoran backed up. "Whoa, what's the matter?" Chocy used his wings to cover his face, to sign, "I want this! It looks cool!" Syaoran sighed as a big sweat drop rolled down from his head. "Fine…" He jumped back onto Chocy, and told him to move. They started to walk, and the sand fairy followed them, protecting them with the barrier. They walked for a few miles, and still saw no signs of a town or what so ever. Just when they thought they were going to camp out tonight, Chocy tripped on to something; he lost his balanced for a while, and flapped his wings furiously to try and not to fall. When it finally gained its balance back, they all turned around to look on earth tripped them. They were surprised, realizing it was a young lady! "Oh no!" Sakura yelled, and jumped off Chocy. Syaoran followed her. She picked her up; half of her body was buried in sand. Sakura brushed the sand off her, and lightly tapped her face, "Are you okay?" She asked. "Oh, no. Chocy killed her!!" Sakura looked at Chocy, who immediately backed up. "Chocy's a killer!! You ran her over!!" Sakura yelled louder. "Calm down!" Syaoran said. "You're scaring Chocy! Beside, I don't think she's dead, or if she is, we're not the reason. She was fainted to start with!" Syaoran picked her up, and checked her pause. Chocy walked closer to them to see if she was still alive. The Syaoran smiled to him. "Don't worry, Chocy, she's still alive." Chocy sighed to his relived. "Let's bring her to the nearest village." Syaoran said, he lifted her on Chocy's back, and led them. They walked for another minute or so, and came across a village. It was a weird village; everything was made out of sand, the building, the stores, the houses, everything. But that's not the weird part. A barrier similar to the one created by the sand card protected the whole village. Just when they were about to reach it, the sand storm suddenly died down in the matter of seconds. Sakura and Syaoran were very unfamiliar with this unusual phenomenon. The walked closer to the village, then a boy around their age came charging out the village entrance. "Sis!!" He cried as he stumbled across the sand, followed by a few villagers. "Sis?" Sakura and Syaoran both said. He must've meant the girl they saved. Syaoran was getting her off Chocy when the boy slapped his hand. "Hey!" Syaoran shouted, but the boy shouted even louder. "Don't you dare touch my sis!! What have you done to her?" He insisted bringing her down himself. A few villagers came to help him. One of them bowed to Syaoran, she was an old lady with gray hair tide in a bun at the back of her head. "Thanks for bring her back, we were getting worried. Why don't you come to the village, and we'll explain everything." ~~~~~ "Welcome to Sand village. We live between the desert and the great lake, so our climate is really a mix of both." The old lady led them into the village; she was explaining the situation to them. "As you can see most of the shelters around this area is constructed with sand. We really make use of the resources around us." She waved her hand around. Sakura and Syaoran looked around them, she was right; everything was made out of sand. "The lake is our source of water, that's why a lot of us live around the coast." Syaoran made a face, and then asked. "What if there's a flood tide?" The old lady shook her head. "We've been keeping track of the water and know where to build the houses, the water won't get as up as the houses." "I guess…" Syaoran agreed, then the felt this extreme heat that flew from head to toe, all three of them collapsed, and yelled. "SO HOT!!" and in Chocy's case, "WARK!!" he was so hot that he had to take off the chocobo mask. The old lady laughed. "Of course, silly, this is the desert. Why don't you go to Selenda's house, and ask her for some change of clothes?" "That would be wonderful." Syaoran said, lifting his head up. Sakura heard the name, and asked. "Who's Selenda?" The old lady pointed to a house near by. "Why don't you ask her yourselves?" A young lady came out of the house the old lady pointed to. Sakura and Syaoran both exclaimed. "You!" "Hi, my name is Selenda." The girl said. It was the same girl that they saved in the desert. "I heard that you saved me. Thank you so much." She smiled. She was a bit older than Sakura and Syaoran; her hair was only till her neck. She looks active and gentle at the same time. A shadow appeared behind her. "You don't really need
to thank him, sis, I don't think he was up to any good from the
"Sy…Syaoran…" Sakura said, trying to calm him down. "You were up to no good, who knows what you would've done if I hadn't arrived?" Dalon shouted louder. Selenda covered his mouth. "That's enough!! You're so grounded!!" She dragged him back in to the house. She turned around, and forced a smile. "Why don't you come in and change into something that suits the climate? You people must be burning in those." Inside, Sakura and Syaoran changed into something more comfortable. Syaoran put his utility belt around him, and hanged his sword around his waist. Sakura came skipping out of the dressing room. "Syaoran, so, how do I look?" She was dressed in a short, tight pair of pants with a mini cape around her waist with a sleeveless top, matching a pair of long gloves that came to the upper part of her arms. Syaoran couldn't help but blush. "Um…it looks…"
On their way out to the dinning room, they heard Dalon wining to Selenda. "Why do I have to lend him my clothes…I won't wear it after it's been on his filthy body." Selenda put some tea on the table. "Fine, he can keep it." Sakura and Syaoran stepped out; Selenda clapped her hands together. "Oh, it fits! That's great. I though my old clothes would fit you." She went over to pick off some lint on Sakura's shoulder. She turned to Syaoran. "And you, you look so handsome in my brother's clothes." This was the first time Syaoran heard someone beside than his mother and sisters use the word "handsome" to describe him. "Um…thanks…" His face turned slightly red. Unluckily, Dalon caught that minor blush. He grumbled, Syaoran saw the look on his face, and tried to avoid looking at him. Just when he was about to give Syaoran a piece of his mind, someone knocked on the door. "Sorry to interrupt." A mother carrying a daughter appeared as Dalon opened the door. "But my daughter has a fever, can you help her?" The mother said. Dalon smiled, and waved one hand to guide her to a room. "Sure, follow me." Sakura and Syaoran saw them, and turned around, asking Selenda what was happening. "How come the mother came to Dalon when her daughter is sick? Why doesn't she go to a doctor?" Selenda smiled, and looked at her brother. "He's the town's pharmacist, everyone turns to him when they're sick." Sakura gasped. "Really? Oh, he must be so smart." Selenda grinned to her complement. "Well, in a way, yes. But you see, this is a very small town, everyone needs to take responsible for a certain part of the town. Mr. Coochi is the town's welder; Mrs. Retyum is the town's sewer. You see, we really rely on each other. Life would be difficult with out anyone of us." Sakura asked out of curiosity. "So what's your job?" Selenda smiled, and danced around the kitchen table. "I'm the town's dancer, I dance in special ceremonies and festivals." She moved delicately around the table, graceful as the swan, and smooth as a piece of silky cloth. Her short hair waved in the air, shining and floating. Sakura and Syaoran looked at her admiralty, Dalon came out with a tray filled with medicine, and saw that her sister was dancing again. Her movement was so beautiful that Sakura and Syaoran didn't even notice he came in. Dalon saw the way Syaoran looked at Selenda. His eyes were shining, amazed by her skill. Jealousy formed in Dalon's eyes. He slowly walked closer to Syaoran, and stepped on his foot on purpose. "Ouch!!" Syaoran screamed, Selenda stopped dancing, and everyone turned his or her attention to Syaoran. "What gives?" Syaoran yelled at Dalon. Dalon looked back at him. "You are just like every other men I came across, drooling upon my sister's dance move." Syaoran was really insulted this time. "What do you mean?" He held up a fist, ready to fight. Instead, Dalon just ignored him. "I don't have time for you, I still have a patient to treat." Syaoran looked at him madly. "That little son of a…" Selenda interrupted him with an apology. "I'm sorry that he acted that way." She bawled. Syaoran turned to look at her, and put his hand on his head. "Oh…um…it's no problem." He said. Selenda got up, and looked into the air sadly. "It's just that…after the incident…" For a minute there, she went in to deep thought. Syaoran walked closer to check on her. "Hello?" He asked. Selenda snapped into reality. "Oh, um, sorry, I was daydreaming again. Oh, I didn't really finish my dance yet, why don't you come to my practice this afternoon?" Sakura popped into the conversation. "Okay! I really want to see more of your dances anyway!" Selenda grinned, and replied. "That's great!" On the other side of the wall, Dalon pure a little dust into a small piece of cloth, and wrapping it into a little package. He smiled, and then put it into his pocket. ~~~~~ On an outdoor stage in the outer part of the town, a few couches were teaching Selenda more dance moves. They were all there to watch, including Dalon; he looked at the way the couch taught his sister, his facial expression turned grumpy again. "Stupid couch, he didn't really have to get that close." Syaoran overheard that, and teased him. "You're still jealous over your older sister? That's very childish of you." Dalon looked at him, and stuck his tongue out. "Being childish is better than being perverted!" Syaoran was really irritated, "Alright, that's it! You've had your fun, now it's time to get serious!" Dalon taunted him even more. He made a face, and said. "I'm not afraid of you!" Syaoran ran towards him, and yelled. "Oh, we'll see about that!" Dalon turned and ran; Syaoran chased after him. "Come back here, coward!" But he was no coward; he was leading him into a trap… "Syaoran?" Sakura said as she witnessed Syaoran running out the theater. "What's the rush?" Dalon ran into an alley, until he reached a dead end. He stopped and turned around to face Syaoran. Syaoran slammed his fist together, and said; "Now I've got you." Dalon smiled. "No, not really." He reached into his pocket, and picked out the bag of dust. Syaoran didn't notice what was he up to. "Game's over, you're going to pay for all the things you've said." "Why? They're all true. You're just like any other men, each and every one of them. Always after my sister, well I'm telling you, there's no way that you perverts can get her!" Dalon yelled; his emotion was really unstable. Syaoran put his hand on his waist. "Boy, talk about being over protective. You're even worst than Touya!" He laughed. Dalon asked. "Who?" Syaoran waved his hand. "Never mind." Dalon continued. "You just don't get it, the bond between my and Selenda is more than you think!" ~~~~~ "Selenda! You were great!" Sakura said, as she ran up to her. Selenda just finished her practice; she went up to meet Sakura. "Thanks! " She said. She turned around and found no signs of his brother or Syaoran. "Where're the boys?" She asked. Sakura waved her hand. "Went off to somewhere." Selenda put her hand on her chin. "I hope they're not fighting….Dalon's a very protective little brother." Sakura smiled. "Yeah, I know what you mean, I've got a big brother, too!" Selenda shook her head. "No, he's different. We've really been through a lot." She sat down and Sakura sat down beside her. She began to explain. "My mother died in an early age, and my father got lonely, so he got married again, but that woman already have a child, and he's Dalon." She said. "So you and your sister aren't real brother and sister?" Syaoran asked as Dalon summarized his past. "My real father left us, he was just like the other no good men." "He left?" Sakura asked Selenda at the same time. Selenda nodded, and went on. "That's why he's always saying 'Men are dirty! They're dirty creatures!' And so on. So after our parents died, we really rely on each other, he always joked about how he won't give me to any man, the best thing to do is just to marry him." She laughed, but her laughter wasn't happy. "You really meant that, didn't you?" Syaoran asked Dalon. Dalon got puzzled. "What?" Syaoran said. "Marrying her! You two aren't really related…so you can really get marry." Dalon's face turned a bit red. Syaoran made a disgusted face. "Oh my god." Dalon looked up, and Syaoran was shaking his head. "Oh, goodness. You have a crush on your own sister! I was just bluffing! And look what I found out!" Dalon eyed him, and yelled. "Shut up!!" He took out the bag of dust, and threw it towards Syaoran. The bag opened, and the dust got all over him. "(Cough cough) What the heck are you doing? You want me to kick your ass?" Dalon looked at him. "If you can." "Of course I can you little…" Then Syaoran realized his voice had changed. Looking up at Dalon, thinking since when does he look that tall to him, he noticed that he was the one who's short. He looked at his own hand, "Oh…oh my god!! AAAAAAAHHHHH!!" "What was that?" Sakura got up form the seat. Selenda stood up, and said, "That came from the alley!" She spring for the alley. Sakura ran after her. When they reached the alley, they saw Dalon standing there, and a pile of clothes on the ground, and were that pile of clothes…moving? Sakura noticed that it was Syaoran's clothes. "Dalon! Where's Syaoran!" She yelled. "…Sakoowa…." The girls turned around to look for the one who said that, that was a rather high-pitched voice that tried to say "Sakura" but miss pronounced. They turned left and right, without seeing anyone in their sight, they listened closely. "…Down here…" Sakura looked at the pile of clothes, and realized something was in it, talking. "Hoe…?" Then she noticed the pile of clothes was really a kid in over sized clothes. "Sakoowa…" The kid said. Almost right away, Sakura detected it. "Sy…Syaoran?????" She kneeled down before him. He said in a high pitch voice. "It…me, Sakoowa…" Sakura covered her mouth. "Oh my god, Syaoran…you're…you're…" She hugged him tightly. "CUTE!!" "Um…um…Sakoowa!!" The little Syaoran blushed as he tried to pull Sakura away from him, but he wasn't strong enough to do so. When Sakura finally pulled away, she looked at Syaoran with a worried expression. "But…why are you so small…?" Syaoran pointed his little index finger to Dalon. "He did it!" Selenda rushed up to him, holding up a fist in front of his face, she yelled. "Dalon, turn him back." Dalon simply held up two hands and said. "I can't." they all exclaimed. "What?!" Syaoran jumped up and down in Sakura's arms. "What do you mean you can't? You mean I have to stay like this forever?!" Selenda squeezed his shirt's collar and started wiggling him back and forth. "You! You're always doing this! Why the heck did you turn him into a little kid? You better turn him back or you'll have to wash dishes for the rest of your life!" Dalon got dizzy as she wiggled him. "Okay! Okay! It's only temporarily!" He shouted. Selenda stopped wiggling and listened, "What did you say?" The three of them asked. Dalon was still dizzy. "I…only used it on him because that was a new kind of medical dust…and I wanted to test it…and I hated his guts, so…" Selenda brought him closer to her face and yelled even louder. "YOU WHAT? How can you test drugs on him??" "So…" Dalon continued. "Until I figure out how to work with this kind of medical dust…you'll have to stay as a five year old." Dalon said. Syaoran complained. "What? How can you do this to me?" Sakura pulled him back to her lap. "Oh, come on, look at the bright side!" Sakura said, smiling with a cheerful face. "You get to be five again! What are the odds of that happening to you?" Syaoran blushed, and said. "But I don't want to be five." Sakura stood up, and swung him in her arms. "Oh…that's not so bad. Come on, I'll carry you around…and sing lullabies to you…oh, me, carrying you around, you can't do that everyday!" Sakura giggled. Syaoran blushed harder, and started to stutter. "But…but, but…" Selenda walked towards them, and lifted on of Syaoran's sleeves up. "Well first we'll have to get you into some suitable clothes. But, my, you're cute!!" She pinched his face, and laughed. "Can I carry you around, too?" Two veins popped up on Dalon's head, never thought that his plan backfired, now his sister adores him even more! Selenda smiled. "Let's go." She turned around and made an angry face, and shouted meanly. "Well, are you coming or not?" Dalon rushed up to her, she pointed to his nose, and said. "You're grounded till you find the cure for Syaoran! And no dinner tonight!" Tears ran down Dalon's face like waterfall. "Oh, man…" ~~~~~
Selenda smiled brightly, "Oh, why don't you come to the festival tonight, we're having a ceremony to honor the sand fairy who's been protecting the village for generations." She spun. "And I'm, going to be dancing there!" Sakura cheered. "That's great! We'll be there!" Selenda leaned towards Syaoran. "And there're going to be tons of yummy snacks for you." Syaoran crossed his arms. "Oh, please." He said. "I'm not a child!" Selenda touched his nose. "But for now you are." Syaoran sank into Sakura's arms. "Oh, man…" Then something hit Sakura, "Oh, this festival is for the sand fairy, right?" Selenda nodded. "She's been protecting this village for generations. Thanks to her, this village isn't effected by sand storms." Sakura put a hand to her chin, and thought [That's why there were a barrier like the one made by the sand card when we arrived.] Sakura looked up, and smiled. "Well, enough blabbing, I'm hungry, let's go!" ~~~~~ There were a lot of stores in the festival; from games to snacks, you name it, they've got it. The atmosphere was very crowded, filled with chatters and music. Sakura browsed around, she bought an apple size candy on a stick for Syaoran, at first he refused, but later he accepted and chewed on the yummy candy like a five year old. As they wandered around the festival, a man on a unicycle rode around and announced. "The ceremony will begin in a short while, please attend to the outdoor dance floor as soon as possible." Sakura looked down at Syaoran, who was enjoying the candy in her arms, and said. "Selenda's going to be there, let's go!" Syaoran, whose mouth was still eating the candy, nodded. Sakura ran to the outdoor dance floor with Syaoran in her arms. What she didn't know was that a man was behind them… To be continued…  Okay, that's it for now! Since you gals were rushing me so much, I've decided to make a cliffhanger! Muahahahahahahah… Piggy Ho Ho '(oo)'
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