Chapter 23
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As the group walked on, the sun was setting in a sky of fire. They watched the sun went down the horizon and were just thinking about not having a place to stay at when they encountered a stable looking structure in front of them. They soon noticed that the stable was filled with unusual creatures as they approached. Some were monsters that have a body of a human, head of an eagle and gigantic wings. Others went from small cats that have a ruby on their heads to buffalos that had tails made of snakes.

The groups were amazed with what was in front of them when a young man with a blue and white robe walked out from the stable door. Their eyes met, and he smiled gently. "Hello, are you travelers?" The two nodded in silence, the young man went on. "If you want, you can stay here for a night. It is getting very late, and you shouldn't be out here in the dark. Please, do come in." He offered, but the two looked nervously at the strange animals. He caught the looks on their faces, and comforted them. "Do not worry, they're as harmless as the weeds around your feet. Here, let me lead you if you wish." He walked closer to Sakura and Syaoran who continued to stare at the animals. The young man took Chocy by the neck gently, and led them into the door.

As soon as they were in, the young man introduced himself. "I am Father Ribian, owner of this farm. Please to meet you." He sat down on a chair around a round table. Sakura and Syaoran sat down as Syaoran made their introduction. "I'm Li Syaoran and this is my...lover, Kinomoto Sakura." The word "lover" reddened their cheeks. Syaoran cursed at himself in his mind. [You idiot, why couldn't you just say girlfriend!?] After a week, Syaoran still couldn't get use to the fact that Sakura and him was officially a couple. Over the past week he kept looking for a term to address her in a situation like this. "Girlfriend" was the one he went with most often, thought he never knew where did the word "lover" come from.

"I see." Father Ribian smiled delightedly, looking at the couple. Sakura looked up and asked curiously. "Pardon me for asking...but aren't you a bit young to be a Father?" Syaoran teased her. "You're not thinking of one of those father that owns a child, are you?" Sakura glared, "Of course not! I know what a Father is!"

Father Ribian laughed softly. "Yes, a lot of people questioned me about that. I just happen to know a lot about my religion."

"I have another question." Syaoran said. "What's with the animals?"

Father Ribian answered with a smile on his face. "These are creatures rejected by the humans. They are mainly rare or deformed creatures that I took charge of. It is very cruel to judge one based his or her appearance, but sadly that is the kind of society we live in today. These creatures were abandoned, so I built this place and took care of them."

[So in another word, you collect monsters...] Syaoran thought quietly to himself while staring at the young pope. Father Ribian met his eyes, and smiled. "Why don't you hit the beds? You both look tired enough. It's okay for you to share the same bed, right?"

Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other. "Ah..." They said in union. Father Ribian couldn't help but laugh. "What's wrong? Isn't she your...lover?" He laughed some more. Sakura and Syaoran blushed, and sank back into their seats. Father Ribian giggled, and headed out the door. "I'll go and make your...beds. Seems better that way." Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other and sighed.

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Drops of grain scattered on the stable floor as Syaoran fed the three little birds, talking to himself. "Girlfriend...this is my...girlfriend. Girl-Friend." He sighed, and lowered his head to face the birds. "Man...why couldn't I say it right? It's a simple phrase. Why do funny words have to pop out of nowhere?"

Chocy was watching him while leaning his chin on his wing, resting his elbow on the fence. [Typical. You finally get to date her, and you don't know what to call her. You know, if I get a date, I wouldn't...] Chocy stopped his thought as soon as he caught a sight of a beautiful young lady chocobo, giggling among herself in the corner of the stable as she watched Syaoran talked to the birds. Chocy's heart almost stopped. He cleared his throat, and walked towards her. She saw him coming, and stared at him with a question mark on her head. Chocy brushed his feather on his head, and offered her his wing. {Hello, the name's Chocy...} before he finished, he tripped, and made a direct head fall on the ground. He stayed there for a minute, stood up, dusted himself, and turned around. {Forget I said that.} He said, wanting to cry.

The female chocobo smiled. She went ahead of him, took him by his wing, and said. {The name's Miranda.}

Chocy was kind of surprised of how the way turned out, he said nervously, {My name is...}

Miranda stopped him. {It's okay, I heard.}She smiled some more, and pointed to Syaoran, commenting. {Is that your friend there? He sure is strange.}

Chocy waved and said. {Oh he's not that strange compare to some of the humans I've seen.}

Miranda clapped her wings and asked excitedly. {Oh my! How many people have you seen?}

Chocy was gaining confident. {Why a lot. Not just humans, I meet a lot of chocobos too. I meet tons of interesting people during my journey.}

Miranda leaned forward and said admiringly. {Oh, I'm so jealous. I'm stuck here all day and don't have any chance to meet any interesting people. It must be great to go on a journey like yours. Chocy, can you tell me all about it?}

Chocy blushed and scratched his head. {Wow, you made me sound like a hero...ehehe...okay. It all began when Sakura and Syaoran found me in Terry's stable...}

Chocy began to tell her about his life story. Syaoran looked at him with a pair of gentle eyes. He was glad that Chocy found a companion. As he turned to feed the birds again, the birds' attentions were caught by something else. They turned and bounced away, Syaoran asked. "Hey, where're you guys going?" As Syaoran followed them, he saw a few penguin birds in front of them. The penguin birds seemed to be occupied with marbles that Father Ribian gave them. The infant birds have never seen anything roll before, so they seemed amazed by the rolling object. Their gazes followed the marbles wherever they rolled, heads turning from left to right, from left to right. Syaoran giggled at the cute scene.

He knelt beside the birds and asked. "You like playing with marbles?" The birds looked up curiously. Syaoran picked a marble up and asked the penguin birds. "Can I use this one?" The penguin birds gave a light chirp, indicating that they agreed. Syaoran put the marble a foot in front of the infant firebirds, and said. "Now, you roll it like this." He rolled it towards them; they ran away with a light scream. Then they paused and stared at the marble as it came to a stop. They all hovered around the little ball and Bi Bi touched it with its tiny wings. It gave the marble a little push, and it rolled a few centimeters. The other two were exited now. They began rolling the marbles back and forth, cheering delightedly.

Syaoran smiled. He pointed towards the penguin birds. "Why don't you guys play with them?" The three birds paused and looked curiously towards the penguin birds, the penguin birds did the same. They stared at each other for a long while, then one penguin bird rolled its marble towards Mi Mi. Mi Mi's eyes glowed, and all three birds bounced happily towards the penguin birds. The all started rolling the tiny marbles towards each other. Syaoran smiled, feeling happy for them that they got along.

They'd need to get along if they were to live here.

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Sakura waited on her bed silently, and looked up as Syaoran entered. She smiled and nodded, "Hey you." Syaoran glanced at her, and smiled lightly. "Hey."

Right away, Sakura felt something was wrong. As Syaoran sit on his own bed and sighed, Sakura came and put her arms around him. He gave a little blush as she started to ask. "Is there something wrong?" Syaoran hesitated, and then shook his head. "No, nothing." Sakura snuggled in his neck, and kept asking. "That won't work. Come on, tell me."

Syaoran sighed, and turned to face her. "Have you ever thought of what will happen to Chocy and the birds after we go back to Japan?"

That caught Sakura off guard, she never thought of the question. She shifted uneasily, and shot back. "Have you?"

"Yeah." Syaoran said, lying down on the bed. "I think about things like that. Where are they going to stay when we're gone? Who's going to take care of them? Will they get use to their new owner and things like that."

Sakura looked hurt. She never thought of things like this, one of the reason was she never wanted to say good-bye. "I don't know...what about you? Have you got a solution?"

Syaoran took her hand, and said. "I think...it's time."

"What?" Tears began to flood in her eyes; Syaoran squeezed her hand harder and continued. "This farm seems to be perfect for them. Chocy just found a girl friend, and the birds seems to get along with the penguin birds. I hope Father Ribian can take them."

"But...I hardly know the birds, and I don't want to say good-bye to Chocy." Sakura lowered her head. Syaoran sat up, and put her in his arms. "I know it's hard, but the longer we wait, the harder it's going to be. We'll have to do this sometime." He smoothed her back.

Eventually, she calmed down. "Okay...I understand. But don't you think we should ask them first?" Syaoran nodded, and they headed out the room hand in hand.

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No matter what they think, they should always ask the owner first. Therefore Sakura and Syaoran came to a room with high ceiling and a big cross that was hanged on top of a window. Inside, the animals slept on roughly sewed sheets and blankets. Father Ribian was kneeling in front of the cross, making quiet prayers. Sakura and Syaoran thought they shouldn't disturb, so they waited patiently. Moments later Father Ribian finished praying and stood up to face them. "Having trouble falling asleep?"

Syaoran gave a weak smile and said. "You could say that." He looked around. "Nice room."

Father Ribian gave a warm smile. "It used to be a church. I cleared out the benches and make this a resting area."

"What happened?" Sakura asked. Father Ribian sighed lightly, and began to speak. "This area used to be such a lovely town, but because of religious differences, fights broke out often. Finally people moved out, separating the two religions and this town was deserted. That was when the owners left all the pets, and I took care of them. I started out with just a few normal animals. I don't know why but strange animals started to show up last summer. I have no intension of leaving them out there so I took charged and let them join me."

He knelt beside one of the three tailed cats with a ruby on their heads. He scratched it behind the ears and the cat purred softly. "Beside than their appearance, they're really harmless. But people rejected them. I really don't see the reason why. So," He stood up and dusted his hands, "what brought you two out here in the middle of the night?"

Sakura squeezed her hands together, Syaoran noticed she had trouble leaving her friends so he went ahead and asked. "We'd like you to take care of Chocy and the three baby firebirds for us...if it isn't too much trouble." He added the last statement in time.

Father Ribian closed his eyes, and slowly reopened them, he concluded. "I do whatever your friends prefer. If they choose to stay, I have no problem taking them in. But if they choose not to..." Syaoran stopped him. "We understand. We'll do whatever they want." Father Ribian nodded.

Sakura couldn't take it anymore; she dashed out of the church with out warnings. Syaoran called out, "Sakura!" He apologized to Father Ribian and excused himself as he ran off to catch her.

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Sakura ran outside and collapsed under a tree. She began to sob. Syaoran caught up to her and slowed down as he got closer. He stopped a few feet behind her and remained speechless for a several seconds. Then when the silence broke, it was Sakura who spoke first. "Why...? Why, Syaoran? Don't you like Chocy anymore? Don't you like the birds anymore? Why'd you have to get rid of them?"

"You're being silly, Sakura. You know I love them as much as you do!" Syaoran said, taking a step closer. Sakura shook her head. "Then why? Syaoran, why?"

"You and I both know exactly why! We're going back to Japan after this crazy journey. If we just leave them hanging, they'll be on their own. We're lucky enough to find someone that can take care of them, so why not let Father Ribian take them?"

Sakura turned around. "I don't want to leave them! Maybe...maybe there's another way! Why'd you have to give them up so fast? Maybe we won't go back, maybe...maybe we'll keep them and bring them to Japan with us..." Syaoran took her hands and held them tight. "You're talking nonsense, Sakura! Calm down!" Sakura struggled to be free. "No I'm not!"

With a quick and smooth movement Syaoran let go of her hand, and drew her to his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and held her tight. "I know, Sakura. I know what you're going through. You're going through denial. I don't want to leave them either, but it has to be done."

Sakura began to sob again. "But I...but I..." Syaoran tightened his grip. "It's okay. Cry. Cry all you want if you think you'll feel better." Sakura didn't hesitate, she cried aloud in his chest.

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A person smiled to himself, and said. "It's a perfect night for your test out, baby. Give it everything you've got!" Behind him was an object that looks much like a giant balloon. It began to grow, as if someone was blowing it. Then its size quickly reduced, and out came needles, that landed sharp on the ground. The person grinned and broke into a laugh. "Perfect."

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Father Ribian sat peacefully on the doorsteps outside the church, stroking a three meters tall falcon on the neck. Suddenly, the falcon jerked up, and looked at the sky with caution. It sniffed, and looked towards far west.

Father Ribian noticed its behavior, and asked. "What's wrong, boy?" The falcon gave a low growl and narrowed its eyes. Father Ribian followed his gaze and saw a dark figure at the far west side. "We have company."

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Sakura was starting to calm down in Syaoran's chest. She stopped sobbing, and almost fell asleep. Slowly opening her eyes, she pushed herself away from him and apologized. "I'm sorry. I guess I wasn't ready to say good-bye yet. I didn't mean to be selfish."

Syaoran smiled softly, and said. "That's okay. I know how you feel." She got closer and snuggled on Syaoran's shoulder. "Thanks, Syaoran."

Moments later, an explosion from the church caught them off guard, and knocked them down. As soon as they got up, they saw smoke coming from the main entrance of the church. "Father Ribian!" They yelled.

A young boy around the age of ten was sitting on an oversized globefish hovering in the mid-air. He laughed and cheered at the sight of destruction. "Woo-hoo! Way to go, boy! That was a great attack! Now, try to blow up the whole thing." He pointed to the church and commanded.

A shadow stepped into the moonlight, and yelled. "That's enough!" The boy turned and saw a young priest of some sort that came out from the shadow of the wall. They studied each other for a moment, and the boy yelled back. "Who are you?" Father Ribian stepped forward and asked with a flat face. "I can ask you the same question. Who are you? And what are you doing here?"

"I'm Kenneth, here to test out my new weapon that I just completed tonight. Isn't he great?" He hugged the globefish that he was sitting on.

"This is no place for you test you weapon, you might endanger my pets and me. Now leave!" Father Ribian was getting mad. Kenneth looked at him, and said with a grin. "Who cares about you and your stupid animals? If I should kill all of you to get some practice then I'll let it be. It'll be a nice warm up for my Bobby here." He patted the globefish. Father Ribian couldn't believe how inconsiderate that boy was being. He gave him another chance. "Leave now or I'll have to take further action!"

Kenneth leaned forward and challenged. "Oh what are you going to do? Let your puny animal bite me? What can you weaklings do?" Father Ribian had reached his limit. He would not stand another minute of this boy.

Sakura and Syaoran came running towards them, and saw the enemy. "Are you okay, Father Ribian?" Sakura asked loudly. Syaoran saw Kenneth, and took out his sword. "Is this an invader?" He was about to strike when Father Ribian held out his hand to stop him. "It's okay. You're my guests, I'll take care of this." Syaoran hesitated. "But Father..." Father Ribian ignored him, and faced the enemy. Kenneth was laughing. "Oh come on now, priest guy. What can you do?"

"Plenty, with the help of my friends." Father Ribian narrowed his eyes, and said. "Falcon, strike." It was quiet, but the falcon heard it. It leaped out of the shadow and almost landed on Kenneth and his globefish. But the globefish blew out a puff of air and it dodged backward, avoiding the impact. Kenneth looked at the falcon with surprise. "Where have I seen this...oh! I know!" He giggled, and said. "I created this falcon, where'd you find it?"

Sakura and Syaoran both gasped, and shouted. "You created it?!"

Kenneth nodded, and said. "It's one of my experimental specimens. I was creating a perfect monster for weapon and I abandoned most of the ones that failed." As he looked around, he realized more animals appeared. "Hey, these are all my specimens. So you gathered them up, huh?"

Father Ribian's rage had gone way over his limit. "So, you were the one that abandoned all these animals...why? Why did you have to create them and abandon them?"

"They were weak. They will never become the immortal monster I wished to create. But this one, on the other hand," He patted the globefish again. "is immortal. It is much stronger."

"That's no reason to abandon them." Father Ribian's voice was starting to get shaky. "If you created them, you should take responsibility, and take care of the. You can just kick them out and expect them to survive on their own!"

"You're right, I didn't." Kenneth said. "I just kicked them out, and expected them to die."

Father Ribian's hands were squeezed into a fist. "How could you...how could you?"

"What'd you expect from a devil from hell?" Kenneth's words shocked all three. Sakura and Syaoran both yelled. "The missioners?"

"Oh, you seem to know a lot." Kenneth sat with confident. "Anyway, I'll have to do some killing now. See you weaklings in hell."

Father Ribian couldn't take anymore of this. He commanded. "Everyone! This is the owner that betrayed you! Attack him and kill him if you wish, God himself wouldn't forgive a monster like him." All the animals got into fighting position. Kenneth laughed. "You seemed to forget the reason I abandoned them. They were failed experiments. They're not perfect. But I've got the monster that is. Do you really think you can defeat me?"

Without warning, the battle began. The three-tailed cat charged forward and tried to tackle it, but it bounced right off of the globefish's stomach. The cat rolled away, and the globefish took the chance to try and flatten it. Its gigantic body landed on top of the cat; but as it rolled off to see how flat it's gotten, it saw no cat, just a hole in the middle of the ground. It looked around, and saw that the cat's armadillo friend rescued it. They came out of a hole, a few meters away. As the globefish tried to attack them again, a rhino with weird pattern on its skin stepped into the way. It blew out a puff of smoke, and charged at the globefish, knocking it away like a golf ball.

At the same time, ink bombs came splashing on the globefish's face. It backed up, and saw penguin birds carrying ink-filled balloons, attacking from above. Miranda couldn't hold it anymore; she jumped up and started to scratch the thing with its claws. {You monster! Leave us alone!} The globefish couldn't hold long with the attacks coming from both Miranda and the penguin birds, Kenneth commanded. "Okay, globefish. Needle attack!" In a split second, the globefish shot out the needles that were around its body. They almost hit Miranda, and they shot down most of the ink bombs.

Chocy and the three birds saw that their friends' lives were in jeopardy, so they joined the fight with out thinking. Chocy continuously pecked the globefish with his beak with the firebirds shot fireballs. One of the fireballs shot the globefish in the eye, and blinded it for a moment. It jumped back and forth like a bull, flopping off Kenneth. The falcon took its chance, flew up to the globefish, and slashed it with its mighty claws. The globefish's air escaped and it flew like a balloon.

Kenneth wasn't being a good loser, seeing his globefish lost; he took out a dagger, and charged towards Father Ribian. Syaoran and Sakura both shouted, "Father Ribian!!" But it was too late; Kenneth already had his dagger stabbed into Father Ribian's chest. Father Ribian was too surprised and shocked to yell, he just stared at Kenneth with wide eyes, and fell back slowly.

Syaoran ran up and pulled out his sword. "Monster!!" He yelled, and stroke Kenneth's dagger with his own sword. "You're even more despicable than that globefish of yours!" He stroke again, knocking out his dagger and sliced him from his left shoulder to his right hip. It was a brutal cut, but his body disappeared before you could even see the blood. Apparently, that cut also damaged the tattoo that was below his stomach.

Syaoran turned around sharply, and yelled. "Father Ribian!" Sakura was already by his side, looking at the spot where he was stabbed. Surprisingly, there was no trace of blood. "Hang on, Father!" Sakura said; her voice was getting shaky. "I'll get the bandage." As she stood up, Father Ribian held up his hand, and said weakly. "No need..." Sakura stopped, and looked back.

Syaoran knelt down beside him and said. "Are you saying you're going to die, so you don't need the bandage? Don't give up hope, Father!" Sakura also knelt down, and said tearfully. "That's right, Father Ribian. You're not going to die. Please, don't die! Who'll take care of the animals?" She started crying.

Father Ribian looked at them tiredly, and said. "Who said anything about dying?" Sakura and Syaoran both stared at him with a surprise look. Father Ribian got up, looking perfectly fine. He reached into his clothes and took out something from his chest. Sakura and Syaoran knew what happened the instant they saw what it was.

It was a silver cross, now bended out of shape. It blocked the dagger when Kenneth was stabbing. He smiled delightedly and said. "God was watching over me." Father Ribian looked up into the starry night, and closed his eyes as he thanked softly. "Thank you."

When they looked back at the animals, they saw them cheering and dancing. They were all proud of their victory. Sakura's face showed a sign of sadness when she saw Chocy and the three birds dancing among them. Chocy jumping up and down with Miranda, and the three birds were dancing with the penguin birds. They blended right in.

Just Sakura was watching silently, Syaoran put an arm around her, and said softly. "Looks like they already decided what to do." Sakura looked down, and nodded softly. Syaoran saw her movement, and put his other arm around her, hugging her tightly. She shook her head, "It's okay. I'm not going to cry. Because I know it's for the best. They'll be happy."

Father Ribian smiled at the sight of the animal's dance and the couple that wouldn't let go of each other. He retreated back into the church, and retired for the night. Now the night is filled with sounds of animal cheering. "Tomorrow..." Sakura whispered. "Tomorrow we'll say good-bye."

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The next morning, just when Sakura and Syaoran were outside, getting ready to leave, Father Ribian said. "You're almost there." Sakura and Syaoran looked at him with a confused look. He said again. "The base, you're almost there. You're going to fight the missioner's head, aren't you?" Sakura was going to ask how did he know when he closed his eyes and explained. "I knew the instant I looked at you. Not much travelers ever come this much down south. I always joked to myself that whoever that come must be the legendary heroes who are heading south, going to destroy the missioner's base that's just ahead. Who'd thought I was right?" He giggled. Syaoran went ahead and asked. "The base is just up ahead?" Father Ribian nodded, and pointed north. "It should be no more than a day's walk that way. There's a small town surrounding it. You should be able to rest at there first. I always go there to get supplies wherever I need it."

Out of curiosity, Sakura asked. "What's the base like?" Father Ribian lowered his head, and said. "I don't go there anymore ever since the missioners were released. But I remember it being a fortress that looked like a giant scorpion that had its lower part of body stuck in quick sand. Of course, that was before it was activated."

"Scorpion..." Syaoran said. The word rang in his head. He looked up, and smiled. "Thanks for the tip, Father."

Father Ribian smiled, and said. "No problem. By the way, isn't it time for you to say good-bye to your pets?"

Sakura's smiled turned upside-down, and said. "Right..."

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Syaoran pointed at the birds and lectured them one by one. "Now you have to be good around the penguin birds. When you grow nice and big just like your mother, you're not going to start acting all bad and squash your penguin bird friends, okay? Okay."

The birds titled their heads, and didn't understand a word he said. A sweat drop rolled down from his head, and he gave a warm smile. "I'm sure going to miss you. Even thought we hadn't spent too much time together, I feel that I was so close to you. Well, so long." The birds didn't seem to want him to go, they all started to follow him. He put his hand to his forehead, and sighed. "I was afraid of this..."

Just when the birds where getting to his feet, one of the penguin birds chirped, and signaled the birds to play with them. The birds happily hopped to their way and completely forgot about Syaoran. Syaoran made a face, and cursed. "You little monsters...forgot about me already?"

He looked over his shoulder to see Sakura, still hugging Chocy. Chocy knew what was going on even without them telling. They just stayed there like that for a long moment. Sakura said softly. "Chocy, you have to be good, okay? You've gotten us into a lot of troubles even since we got you. Now that you're alone, you better start acting like a grown chocobo. You're going to stay here, and have a lot of chocobo kids, and take care of Miranda, and...and..." She began to cry, and choked out the last few words. "And not cry when we say good-bye...unlike me..." She started to sob, and Chocy couldn't help but feel sad. Miranda at the corner was already crying like a baby.

Sakura wiped her tears, and said. "I...I'm not going to cry...I promised myself." Syaoran walked closer, and comforted her. He looked at Chocy, and petted him on the head. "Good-bye old buddy. You've helped us a lot by getting us this far. We really appreciate it. I just hope you can find true happiness living with your love one." When he got to this sentence, he couldn't continue anymore, his throat turned dry, and he lowered his head. "I had some very good memories with you..." He fought back his tears, thinking [Sakura is already crying, I can't make things worst. Besides, I'm a boy, I shouldn't cry. It's shameful, it's pathetic, it's...] Two drops of tear dropped on his shirt. He forced a smile, and looked up to Chocy with watery eyes. "I'll miss you, old buddy. I really will."

[It's human nature...it's a law: you must shed a few tears when you are leaving your friends.]

~~~~~

Chocy and Father Ribian came outside see them take off. They waved and walked a few meters before the birds came bouncing out of the barn. Sakura and Syaoran was kind of surprise to see them. They looked at Sakura and Syaoran with tearful eyes, and understood that they were leaving. Sakura and Syaoran looked at the cute birds, and couldn't budge for a second. Moments later, the three birds joined hands and formed a small circle. Their wings went up and down, and they chirped every time their wings went up. On the third time up, they held the position, and something glowed in the circled. At that point, their tattoos on their tummy fainted to nothing in the light, and the light gathered to for a fire-red crystal.

Sakura and Syaoran stared at the crystal with disbelieve. "It's..." Sakura said, but didn't continue it. Syaoran went on. "It's the Fire Crystal." They held the crystal in their palms, and looked at the birds with gratefulness. "Thanks." They said. The birds smiled, and cheered like they always do, for both giving Sakura and Syaoran a gift they like, and for detaching from the missioner clan.

Putting their sadness behind, Sakura and Syaoran walked on, hand in hand, holding the gift they received from the birds. Something told them that they'd meet again, someday. Until then, there is nothing that can stand in their way. As long as Sakura and Syaoran have each other, they can eliminate any obstacles.

To be continued...

Author's notes:

WA~
Chocy left, isn't that sad??
I couldn't help but shed a few tears myself when I wrote this! ;(oo);
Okay, I'm fine now! ^(oo)^
But don't worry, they'll see each other again in LoO2.

Till then, see you Chocy~!