Chapter 2: Anonymous Surprise
(by Kasawa Lanford, added on 2005-09-24 12:02:10 AEST) [Discussion Topic]
The ship shook violently as it made its way through the wormhole. Sakura held on tightly to one of the many rings that littered the interior of the cabin, she felt frightened by the constant shaking of the ship and her tight hug on Syaoran made him blush
Maskis looked over his shoulder at the two. “Hang on,” he said and steered the shuttle out of the way of a piece of debris from there old ship, something hit the bottom of the transport which caused it to go upright and spin chaotically
Finally after several tense minute’s the transport itself slowed down and finally went straight, but Maskis saw the exit of this wormhole, but without knowing where they were it would be impossible for him to get them out of where ever they landed
“Brace yourselves,” Maskis yelled as the transport exited the wormhole, a planet came into view one with which Maskis recognized. Ok this is impossible, how can we be back into Sakura’s world….
The transport breached the atmosphere and came toward the planet’s surface, what Maskis saw next caused his blood to run cold. No, this isn’t her world… this is a dimension that we shouldn’t be in… he looked over his shoulder and at Sakura who was not as frightened as she was before, perhaps it was because the shaking had finally stopped. He brought the transport around and toward a small island. The landing was smooth
He sighed. “Ok… where safe… I hope”
Sakura looked at Syaoran, then back at herself, then back at Maskis. “Back…. On that ship.. you said we where married?”
Syaoran looked away from Sakura, blushing as well. “It’s difficult to explain, the other’s we brought where married, except for the last batch who where to young.” Maskis said
“But.. how?”
He couldn’t answer that question. “It’s best for you to find out on your own, I don’t know the future, or what will happen in the next few hours”
Sakura was confused, she didn’t know what to make of the situation, granted she had her key with her and her card’s so she wasn’t completely lonely, plus she had Syaoran with her so she felt safe. But it was the word ‘married’ that bugged her, she loved him, and he loved her, but they hadn’t even talked about the possibility of marriage
He watched the two as they walked off. They need time alone, Maskis thought to himself. He walked toward the edge of a cliff and smiled. “You two are wondering what role you play in this?”
Fai just stared at him. “There not the Sakura or Syaoran we traveled with”
“No, they aren’t. The one’s you traveled with are dead.” Maskis said without any hint of emotion
“Who killed them…” Kurogane asked with both arm’s folded, but his hand was near his blade
Maskis didn’t meet eye contact, but Fai already knew the answer. “You did… didn’t you?” Fai said. Maskis just stared over the ocean before sighing. “It was an order, I was told they would endanger some prophecy that we had been told about… but now I realize that they didn’t endanger anyone”
Kurogane swore. “Bastard….” He almost pulled his blade out, but Fai stopped him. “How old are you?” Fai asked. Maskis turned around, “How… old am I?” he said then smiled. “How old do I look?”
“13.. perhaps 14…” Fai said as he studied Maskis. Maskis smiled, “Yes… I am 13”
“Impossible.. how can a child like you kill a person?” Kurogane said, although there was a hint of anger in his tone
He sighed and walked away. “Hey! I’m talking to you!” Kurogane yelled, but Maskis didn’t want to answer, would it hurt to tell them that he had already sacrificed his family by saving them? In fact, it might even make them wonder why he did it in the first place, if family comes first, why did he save them?
That’s the answer he wasn’t willing to question, for he didn’t know what would happen if it ever came to him. But his main concern was to get in contact with the Space Time Witch, Yuko, and find a way to get Sakura and everyone else off this world
The group set up camp there, the transport was useless for them, since it could only enter an atmosphere, it couldn’t leave an atmosphere, and its interdimentional drive was beyond his repair capabilities
Night was already drawing near, and that worried Maskis, if this was truly the dimension he was thinking of, then night time was the most dangerous. He looked around then smiled at what he saw, there was some coverage in the area which would make it so that him and his guest’s could set up camp and further hid
Later that night, the moon cast an eerie red glow across the planet. As the group began to settle for the night, Fai heard something off the distance, a rumbling of sort. “What’s that?”
Maskis was on look out when he saw it coming; he jumped down from the tree. “We got trouble!” He yelled just as a ball of red energy slammed into the ground near him, sending him into a near by rock. He shook his head; blood ran down from his forehead. “Oooh.. this just isn’t my day” he said as he got up, a sword appeared in his hand just as two figure’s appeared before them. “We want that girl,” one of them pointed a hand, which was all boney, to Sakura
Syaoran stepped in front of her. “Why?”
“She has what our mistress wants; she has Clow Reed’s power.” The figure smiled. Syaoran snarled. “Over my dead body,” he said. One of the figures laughed, “That CAN be arranged little boy”
Maskis moved in front of the figures. “More like over mine,” he said and took a defensive position. “You’re part of the Empire of Clow”
“You know of us?” They said in unison. Maskis sighed, “I know you violate the Internode Federation mandate and enter dimension’s without due cause seeking anyone who has Clow Reed’s power,” he said. “And what you do is any different?”
Fai summoned his staff and stared at the two. “You two talk too much,” he said and began to conjure something up, one of the figures just smiled and caste something on Fai, canceling out his own magic
Maskis lunged toward and swung with his sword, one of the figures raised its staff into the air, catching the sword in mid air and breaking it in half. “How the hell…” Maskis said before being stabbed in the chest with the same staff, the blade on the end went completely through; the figure then pulled his staff out of Maskis chest and let him hit the ground
“Now, who’s next?” The boney figures grinned wickedly; Syaoran kept his stance and waited for one of them to attack him. “Boy, you have no sword, how do you intend to protect that tramp?” One of the two said, that made Sakura slightly pissed, she didn’t appreciate being called a ‘tramp’ nor did she appreciate them coming after her just because had Clow Reed’s power
As she took her key out she heard another girl’s voice, a voice that sounded exactly like hers. “FIRESTORM!” came the yell that echoed across the many rocks on the island. Storm cloud’s formed in the sky and a wave of fire erupted from the center, engulfing there attackers and reducing there body’s to ashes
She hadn’t been the only one who had recognized the girl’s voice, Syaoran had as well. When he looked toward a small hill he saw someone clad in armor, a large sword in one hand, held in place by something that Syaoran couldn’t see
Two more boney men appeared out of thin air, something else was near the island causing thing’s to remain hidden, but the Bone’s didn’t get very far before the man that Syaoran had seen sprang into action. The man brought his sword down, hard, and severed one of the figures in half; he then swung around, brought his sword to bare on the other Bone, who lost his head in the spin
Sakura watched intently and heard another word. “Freezey!” can the yell from the girl he knew had to be her, but yet, how could it? She was here, with Syaoran.. how could she be there when she was here, the thought racked at her brain and caused her to get rather confused. The cloud’s that had brought the firestorm changed to a slight shade of blue and it began to rain, the rain being ice cold and ran heavily on the ground, turning it to ice and causing anything that touched it to slip, strangely enough the man that had saved them didn’t slid, it was then that Syaoran recognized why. “Hey! He’s using magic that I know of…”
“Float?” Sakura said, noticing the slight bubble that was around the man. The man floated toward the group. “You’re not safe here,” he said although his voice was slightly muffled. “You must come with us,”
Maskis managed to get a hand hold on a tree. “Trust him…” he said to Sakura and the others before falling unconscious due to the pain and the fact that he had just been impaled
A girl landed near them, wing’s protruded from her back, it was at that point that Sakura recognized the girl. “Y… Yo…. YOUR ME!” she yelled
The girl turned around and smiled
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