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[Alternate CCS/SO/ST/ORG]Mark of the Catalyst

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Kasawa Lanford:
Maskis walked through the corridor that connected the two halves of the science station "Ralroost" that had been set up around the earth, or as command had happily called it, "sight 1"

"What is it that you found?" Maskis said to one of the scientist who had been studying a rather strange phenomena. "We found something in that atmosphere that might explain why most of the refugee regressed in age." The scientist said but then shook his head. "Correction, why most of the children regressed in age. For some reason adults remain unaffected."

He accepted the pad and looked at the information. "You used two people?"

"Yes I did, I asked Dyhokan Academy if we could have two people come here, a student and a teacher." The scientist nodded to the film. "The first student was a 14 year old grade-schooler, and a teacher who teaches that class, look at this." he gestured toward the monitor

He watched the image, which had been time lapsed and speed up, the kid regressed in age to about 10 year's old, while the teacher remained her height. "Although the kid's can remember everything that they had been thought, some things are forgotten." the scientist shook his head. "Unfortunately, there is no cure that we aware of"

"Does Dyhokan appreciate one of there students regressing in age?" Maskis said to the scientist. "Actually, this student had been causing them quite a bit of trouble, and they where trying to find a way to punish him, they have a technique that allows them to reverse a persons age, both kid and adult, but since the headmaster and mistress aren't around, they can't use."

He nodded. "Very well, so that explains why they regressed in age, but what CAUSED it?" he handed the pad back to the scientist. "I doubt it was always like that"

"No... and there's another issue.. we are already detecting trace amounts of the particles on Masser V, around the Tomoeda City." The scientist sighed loudly and sat down. "SOMEONE is radiating it out from there body but it's very hard to figure out WHO." The door's opened a doctor walked in. "Sir?"

"Yes?" Maskis glanced over his shoulder and at the doctor. "Something the matter?"

The doctor handed the report to Maskis, his eye's narrowed ever slightly. "Is this correct?" he asked

"Yes it is... she had a high magical count, much higher than the others... and it seems she's not alone. Out of three hundred thousand five hundred children who where evacuated from the planet, Japan alone, roughly five thousand are displaying signs of magical prosperities, but only ten are showing an acute raise in there magic, while only two show a slight dampening effect, ONE however has a magic count that bypasses anything I've seen." The doctor looked amazingly puzzled, which was new considering he had never been puzzled before about anything

"Who?" Maskis folded his arms and allowed the datapad to hand from his finger

"Sakura Kinomoto, currently age nine, but she was fourteen." The doctor shook his head. "Out of all the children there, SHE was harmed the most in the regression"

"And no cure huh?" The commander asked. The doctor shook his head and they all sighed. "Looks like we might have to prepare for the worst to, scanners picked up a slight moving toward Masser V, luckily it'll be a couple months before it arrives."

Maskis nodded and soon left the room he walked down a hallway that lead to a gantry crane that connected his ship to the science station. His ship moved away from the station and jumped into gravitic warp, destination: Masser V

On Masser V

Sakura skate through the park, it was the first day of school, well, it was December but the first day of school still. She wore the same uniform, which amazed her that the educational facility managed to copy the uniform color for color. "I wonder how they got all that..." she asked herself as she skated behind a few poles and throw the street. If it wasn't for the slight discoloration in the sky, it'd appear that it was a normal day. But the barrier that protected the city from any future attack was a reminder that they where not on there planet

She skated onto the school grounds and toward her locker, she took her skates off and put her shoes on, her friends greeted her and they began to talk. Mostly about what was going on, none of them talked about what grade they where not in, but they did hope it was temporary

Sakura walked into her class, 3/4, and glanced around ,she was surprised, most of the students there where the same students she had in the sixth grade, only one's missing where of course Tomoyo, Syaoran, Rika and Chahiru, but Yamazaky and a few others where still present. She took a seat and placed he hat and backpack on the slick clamp

After several minute's the teacher walked in, to her surprise it was Mizuky, and she looked slightly agitated, which might be because of all the problems that the teachers had been going through this past week. She introduced herself and the class clapped in happiness she walked around and asked the students what they wanted to do and it was decided on a game of soccer. The class mellowed out and went to a near by field where everyone began the game. Sakura sat by the side lines and watched

As the rest of the class played the game she looked up toward the sky. It was raining slightly but not enough to cause the teachers to pull the class back in, although the rain did leave a smell that brought a sense of closer to everyone; in fact, no one minded the fact that they're uniforms where soaked by the time eleven am arrived

Lunch happened like always and brought with some better food than the students normally had. "I wonder why the food here is better." A student asked as he filled up his tray

Sakura had brought a lunch with her and decided to eat outside under a tree, although the rain did make it slightly difficult to find a spot where the rain wasn't touching the ground, after some looking she finally found one. She wasn't used to eating without Tomoyo, or Syaoran for that matter, the two of them had been eating lunch together for two-three years now

As she ate lunch she heard a boom in the distence and glanced over toward the mountains, which where one thing that was infact real, most of the buildings had in deed been created, the plants where real and so where the buildings, the only things in town that where fake where the streets and lights, over the past week the construction beural had replaced most of the hologram tree's with real ones, figuring that it would bring a better peace here than having fake ones that didn't really mean anything

She got up and picked up her lunch box then walked back to class, some of the students where there and getting ready for PE. While others where talking amongst themselves, either about their day or perhaps about what has gone on. Sakura took her seat and glanced out the window. "Guess I can get used to this, at least until they find a way to undo what happened." she smiled

Kasawa Lanford:
Chapter 2
The death of a dearest one, The beginning of Nightmare's Gate[/b]

Somewhere... in the distant part of space... a woman stood on a hill holding what appeared to be a wand of some sort.

"Ukemi ni tsuite no  hitotoki" the girl said although nothing was appearing, or so many of her followers thought. In space a ball of black matter appeared just above the planet's lateral sphere. Her eye's opened suddenly, redness coming out form within and blasting the ground with her gaze. "Kesu...."

A bang was heard, and the ball of energy exploded, over a thousand lines of energy flew out in all directions before stopping, then heading toward a point in space.

On Masser V

It had been two weeks now since they had been rescued and brought to this planet. Although Sakura was still feeling uncomfortable about a few certain differences it didn't bother her as much as it did those two weeks ago

Although most of the problems had passed already, Sakura was growing accustomed to her new world and the fact that she was slightly younger than she was back on Earth; but she did notice that Syaoran was agitated about all this

It was late at night when she felt it something approaching from somewhere far off in space. She got up out of bed and opened her window and looked out

Up in space

"Incoming anomaly!" yelled an officer from a near by observation station. "Whatever it is, it's fast."

"Bring all ships into position." Barked an admiral as he got up out of his chair and issued orders

Over twenty five ships moved to surround the planet and protect it from whatever was coming its way. The sudden wave of energy, however, overwhelmed there shields and blew the ships apart

"ADMIRAL! We-" yelled a captain before his ship was destroyed. Outside the Admiral watched as his fleet was ripped to shreds by something that they couldn't fight against, let alone see. His time came though when the forward view screen ripped apart and space lay beyond. He had accepted this position knowing one day he would die, and apperently today had been the day

The explosions could be heard even planet side and the people burst from there home's or office's to find out what the noise was all about. Several screamed in terror as the ground near them was struck by something they see people, other's screamed in pain as they where impaled, again by something they couldn't see nor understand

Syaoran ran through the streets toward Sakura's house. The house was remaining untouched by he could fell her power weakening with each strike. But before he got there he felt something go through him and he hit the ground, he brought his hand over to the side of his chest and it came away wtih blood, he also tasted it. It tasted like copper and steel, but he didn't care and just kept going another bolt slammed into him and he fell forward, this time however he could not get up, his vision blurred as he stared at Sakura's house. "S....s....akura...." he said before his vision went black

It struck her.. harder than she ever thought it would.. someone she loved.. someone she held dearest to her... "SYAORAN!!!!!" she yelled with such intensity that her magic spiked, a blue dome of energy shot out from her house, causing it to explode, her body was a float in the air, her magic shifted in color scheme's from green to red, then back to green again, emotions flaring, her eye's shifted from place to place until she saw Syaoran's lifeless body laying on the ground, a pool of blood surrounded him. A spark in her magic occurred again and the blue dome expanded to cover the whole planet

Somewhere else in space

The girl snarled, something was fighting her and she didn't know what it was. "How can anyone have such a high magic level?!" she protested as she feed more energy into her attack, but no matter how much energy she put into it it kept fighting and kept pushing her back. She cursed wildly and kept on pushing

Back on Masser V

Sakura continued to fight, and continued to push as well; whoever it was that was attacking her wasn't succeeding and was just using up energy. She finally shook her head, and put an end to the attacks. Off in the distance a star went nova, eclipsing the sky in a bright yellow hue

(FYI: To know what it felt like when writing this, play the following track: Tsuneyoshi Saito - Opening of Nightmare's Gate)

The dust settled around the planet, but the damage had already been done. She couldn't feel anyone, no life, nothing; she was alone and alone was not what she wanted. She glanced around, the dome she had created to protect her family and friends, had instead reversed and was slowly crushing the planet.

Her magic had been speaking to so many different levels, she failed to notice the sudden tears that occurred around her. She heard a voice behind her and turned around

"You have suffered enough..." said the voice. "you have suffered enough..."

She looked around more, wondering who was saying that; but before she could ask she was encased in what appeared to be a blue light crystal. "I'll send you back in time... to people who will help you... you will bring life back into your soul.. but.. you will not remember any of this... nor will you remember who you where or why you where sent there." the crystal shot up into the air and soon vanished. The voice disappeared and was then replaced by an older woman. "So much suffering.. a young girl like her doesn't need... perhaps they will help her... if only those two dimensional agents weren't away I'd have requested there help but they are away and there is nothing I can do" the girl smiled then she to vanished, the planet soon disappeared from known space, crushed under the weight of the barrier that had been erected for it

End of part one[/b]

(FYI: Play the following song while reading the last paragraph: Tsuneyoshi Saito - Separation)

*Both songs are from the Fafner OST 1 disk*

Kasawa Lanford:
Part 2
Dimension: Starocean

A young man walked along the river bank apparently looking for something. "Where'd I drop that blasted thing." he said as he looked around. As he did that a tremor shook the ground beneath him, throwing him into the river, thankfully it wasn't that deep

He picked himself up and brushed off the sand, but he'd have to change out since he would most likely catch a cold due to wearing wet clothing. He was about to leave when another tremor, this time stronger, shook the ground; he braced himself however and didn't fall, he looked around and up into the sky before sighting what appeared to be a storm on the horizon, only difference was that this storm didn't look natural. A star appeared from the center and went down slightly, then arched upward and disappeared

"Huh?" He said and wondered what it was. Near by the holy city of Aquios was apparently in an uproar about the storm, several of it's guards made there way outside of the city. As they did that a sonic boom could be heard in the distance, at first the young man thought it was perhaps a ship from where he originally came from, but in this case it wasn't: Whatever it was that excited the storm was now skipping through the atmosphere, after sometime it finally found it's way through and started spiraling downward toward the ground.

"With that type of trajectory...... it's going to hit the holy city!" The young man yelled as he glanced at the city, as if on cue the object slammed into the city, destroying whole buildings, before blasting through a wall and into the water below he did, however, get a good look at it. "A crystal...." he said and packed up his sword and shield and made off after it as it floated down the river, which soon disappeared into a cave

Down the cave some a young woman wearing what about to be a ninja attire walked. "The queen said I could find it in here." she said as she continued to search. Her searching ended though when she heard something brush up onto the near by shore line. She ran toward it, using a lantern to see, and noticed young girl laying there, apparently in her pre-teens. She picked the girl up and made her way back to the Holy City

The guard's at the gate didn't stop her, but she did notice an untold amount of destruction which caused her to stop. "Who attacked us?!"

"We don't know, something came out of the sky and went through the city, thankfully no one was hurt." A guard said as he looked around before noticing the young girl. "Whos that?"

"I found her while I was searching one of the caves nearby. She appears to be hurt." The girl said

"Take her to one of the inn's, I heard that one girl, Mirage, is in town and might be able to help." The gate guard said

The girl nodded and ran toward the inn, its door opened and, right there in front of the fireplace, sat a lady who looked to be in her thirties. "Nel?" the lady spoke and got up. "What’s wrong?"

"I found this girl while in the cave, if it wasn't for this right here." She pointed to what appeared to be a mechanical device attached just below the elbow. "I'd have thought she came from here, but."

Mirage nodded and gestured for Nel to follow her. The two of them went to one of the rooms, where another man, about the same height, was staring out the window. "Morning Cliff." Mirage said as she opened the door and gestured for Nel to lay the girl down on one of the beds

"Morning Mirage, whos that?"

"Apparently a young girl who needs our help." Mirage said as she soaked a cloth rag, then tightened it to drain it of all the water it had soaked. He brushed it across the girls wounds to take away the blood that was present, she began to apply some herbs to her rounds to help heal them. Her clothing was something that struck Nel as 'odd' but apparently Mirage had noticed her look. "What she wears is similar to what students wear when they are in grade school back on our world." Mirage said as she brushed away more blood and applied more herbs

Later that night Mirage had undressed the girl and put in more 'civil' clothing, her old cloths where so torn and tattered that she doubted there'd be a way to repair them. "Cliff, see if you can find Fayt and Sophia, they might know her considering the crest that was on that girls sleeve."

"You think the girl attended a school back on Earth?" Cliff said as he opened the door

"No doubt, she did, but the problem is that the school on earth used slightly different patterns, the pattern on her is of an old design." Mirage said, Cliff nodded and soon left

Nel looked up at Mirage. “What do you mean by ‘grade school’ ?” she asked

Mirage walked over to a chair and sat down. “Our culture educates our children in schools, like Fayt who is in College, which is a specialized school, and Sophia, who is in High School, which is a higher form of education.” She took in a breath. “Grade school, which is commonly referred to by older people, is also known as: Elementary School, or, basic education. Where the students learn how to read and write, draw, there numbers and letters”

“I see… much different from what we do here.” Nel said as she got up. “I’m going to report what I found to the queen.” With that she left. Mirage looked over at the young girl, she wondered who the girl was and wondered she had come from. She knew for a certain fact that the girl wasn’t native to this world, and was defiantly not native to this dimension. More so because of the clothing but also because of the mechanical device she had attached to her, which after examining it, was a cell phone. “Old Technology used back in the 21st century.” She said. She laid her head back on the chair and looked out the window and at the sky.

Several hours passed before Cliff returned, Fayt was with her. “Who do we have here?” he asked

“Nel found her in a cave near by a couple hours ago, she was bruised and battered but she’ll be ok.” Mirage said and walked over to the drawer where she had placed the girls old clothing. “Tell me Fayt, do you recognize this?”

Fayt looked at what remained of the girl’s uniform. “Yes I do… at least for the crest I do, the crest belongs to an Academy back on earth, a K-12 one that is. But the colors and patterns are completely different from what that Academy has.” He said

“Is it possible she came from there?” Mirage asked

He thought about it. “I know the Academy likes to take there students out on trips into space to other planets to teach them stuff, but this world is to far from Earth, and there’d be no reason. Plus I doubt she came from there because of that cell phone.” He gestured to what was on the table. “I’d say … she came from the 21st century…”

Cliff shook his head. “Whoa whoa.. .hold on.. You mean to tell me this girl traveled through time and came here?”

“Telling by her bruises, I doubt she came willingly.” Mirage said. “I have a feeling someone might be after her.”

“Oh great…. That’s all we need.” Cliff said

“Either way,” Fayt spoke, “When she wakes up it’s best we not tell her where she is, I can’t help but get the feeling she’ll freak when she finds out she is no longer where she used to be.”

“And HOW do we convince her of that?”

Fayt was about to answer when a young girl appeared before them. Cliff went for his blaster and Fayt for his sword, but the girl held up a hand. “This girl has no memories; she won’t know who she is nor where she came from. It must stay that way if she is to survive.”

Cliff shook his head. “And you are?”

“Someone who knows of several other entities who want her dead, right now they don’t know she’s here and it would be best to keep it that way.” With that the girl vanished

Fayt had that ‘look’ on his face. “Another adventure it seems.” He said

“Yea…” Cliff said

Kasawa Lanford:
The sun rose above the mountains on this strange world. The sky was clear and you could see for miles on end. In the distance you could hear the shores as they crashed against the side of cliff's and walls that lined up the narrow canyons.

Mirage was tending to a fire in the inn, it was rather cold outside so she decided to make a fire and try and warm things up. Over the past few days they'd tried to figure out who the young girl was but apperently the federation hadn't a clue and neither did the school system, who tried every means of cross referencing the girl; although they did find some information related to her. Apperently, deep inside the databanks, was a missing persons report that somehow managed to keep itself alive despite the numerous wipes that the databank went through over the years

"Sakura Kinomoto..." Cliff said

Mirage turned around. "Huh?"

"Thats her name. Apperently she disappeared in the year...... wow...... 2003" Cliff said astonished. "Surprised they had this information. She's an eleven year old girl who suddenly vanished from her school without any word, numerous searchs where done but, after six months of searching, they finally gave up"

"Then how'd she get here... time warp perhaps?" Mirage asked

Cliff nodded. "It's diffinantly possible. In fact, I wouldn't doubt it." Cliff walked over to a chair and sat down. "However, what will we do once she wakes up?"

"Perhaps it's best we try and help her...." Fayt said. The two looked over and noticed him standing the door way, Sophia stood by his side. "That girl said that people where after Sakura right?"

The two men nodded

"Then, until a certain amount of time passes, we should protect her, perhaps even help her out in some way." Sophia suggested

As if on cue, the girls eye's blinked open. "Huh?" she got up and looked around and soon noticed that there where four people in her room. "huh? Who... who are you?" she said while tightening the grip on her sheets

Mirage got up. "My name's Mirage," she said whilst gesturing to herself. "This is Cliff, Fayt, and Sophia." She gestured to the three others in the room as she said there names. "Where not here to hurt you."

"Then... why are you here?" The girl asked

"We where asked to help you, protect you, and thats why we are here." Fayt said as he walked over to the bed and knelt down. "You don't have anything to worry about."

She looked at the young man, for some reason she felt she could trust him, as well as the other girl, who went by the name of 'Mirage' but the other girl and the other man... she just couldn't put her finger on the two

It was already late afternoon when she had woken up. Mirage decided the young girl probably needed some fresh air and took her outside. The moment the young girl stepped out she noticed just how.. beautiful the place looked. After some running around the girl finally came to the waterfall that brought such a majestic look on the city. "Enjoying yourself?"

The girl nodded and stared at the waterfall. "Beautiful..." she said. She was about say more when something came across her and she grabbed herself. Mirage was about to ask what was wrong when two figures appeared on the farside of the Waterfall. "Who are they..." she said

One of the figures vanished, only to reappeared behind Mirage. Mirage ducked and side stepped, then slammed her hand up against the back of the figures neck. He fell forward then vanished and reappeared above her

"Nice try...."

He turned to her and took out a blade, then slashed in the air, cleanly missing the older lady and just barely missing the younger girl. Before Mirage could react the air above them exploded with a force so strong Mirage could barely keep her foot, when the smoke clears one of the figures was nothing more than ash

The other one, who had been watching, stared in disbelief. "You where lucky..." he said. "But that girls power WILL be mine.." he said and soon vanished

Mirage looked over her shoulder and at Fayt and Sophia. "Seems we found who was after her." he said and looked at Sakura, who was shielding herself from nothing now

"I think it's best we leave this city." Maria said

"Good idea." Fayt walked away and toward the castle. "I'll inform Nel that we'll be leaving for awhile."

With that they left and started getting ready

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