Sakura's Last Chance in Time

4th Edition

Chapter 1: Sakura's Darkest Hour

Location: Tomoyo's Winter Retreat house

Date: April 8th, 2007 (+8 Years after Sakura first opens the book of Clow)

Time: 16:30 hrs

In among the mountain range north of Tomoda, was a peaceful land that was the correct place for this house; it was the quiet beauty of this place that drove Sakura and Tomoyo to come here whenever they could. In the years since Sakura and Syaoran admitted their love, it was almost impossible to break those two apart for a second. Nor was Tomoyo alone anymore either; in the month just after Sakura caught the missing Clow Card. Eriol decided to move back to Japan; rather then accept a Oxford scholarship Course for a Science Doctorate.

He had deceivably thrown the chance to go on the quick road to success, and go after the one thing that he had looked for himself; a true love. After some time in Tomoda; Eriol had grown quite fond of Tomoyo. They started to date not long afterwards, and eventually became increasingly in love with each other. Eriol and Tomoyo were suited both as intellectuals, they loved modern arts and a good novel. Evident in the furnishings of Eriol's new home; a portrait of the couple hung in his study, a beautiful oil painting that featured Tomoyo and Eriol as a prince and princess. It was most certain that Tomoyo and Eriol had a relationship as strong as Sakura and Syaoran. Which itself had resulted in minor but humorous competitions between Syaoran and Eriol.

With Sakura's powerful cards and magic in control, and the string of strange activities ceased; resulted in making Sakura happy and safe knowing that her magic would never be revealed to the world. Distance from the known world, Sakura unwarily was now apart of a league of people that unlike everyone else had certain gifts in many ways prevented disasters and defied against problems that faced society.

Around Tomoyo's Winter Home, the tall silent mountains and the lush green trees blanketed with snow isolated in this place from the rest of the world; this was a place Sakura liked a lot, it was very peaceful, its clear exceptional beauty that this pristine valley made Sakura remind herself of life's inherited beauty. This unspoiled paradise was Sakura's retreat from the pressures of high school, her part time job and Toya.

"Sakura-Chan, do you want to go ice skating?" Tomoyo spoke.

"But, Tomoyo-Chan, the nearest lake is not for three miles"

It was a warm Saturday afternoon and the winter was starting to come to a conclusion by this time of the year. The sun was started in make its decent to the west.

"Must I remind you of the facts, Sakura-Chan…?" Eriol noted to Sakura. "When there is a girl with magic, there is a way"

Sakura wasn't somebody who liked to use her magic gifts at any given time; she had in all her years as their mistress, respected the cards abilities and skills. Sakura sometimes worried too much about what if she failed once; it would be an excuse for the cards to go rampant again. Sakura glanced around at the surroundings for a moment, another reason for Sakura disuse of cards was mainly because Sakura was afraid of letting the secret loose. This happened far too many times in her card capturing days; Sakura had constantly played a game of risk, using her magic in awkward situations and miraculously pulling it off by no more then the skin of her teeth.

"Sakura-Chan, there is no risk around here" Syaoran spoke,

He had known about Sakura problem ever since when she captured the Maze Card. Simply having Ms Mitzuki just turn around felt more like asking her to pretend she saw nothing. Syaoran in fact couldn't count the number of situations were Sakura had to hide her magic and finish a task at the same time. Tomoyo had defined it only as extreme luck; but Sakura knew inside; that her miracle run would one day come to a shuttering halt.

"Sakura-Chan, the cards don't think shallow of you, they respect every single move you make, even if it's to no objectionable goal. Once you catch a card, it makes an oath not to break your trust, and it would sacrifice itself for your safety" Eriol explained.

Tomoyo starred a worried look to Eriol. The thought of sacrifice scared Sakura, although she wanted the protection, Sakura objected to the theory that the Card's sprit was less important then the mistress. Sakura maintained an impartial view that she, Kero, Yue and all fifty three cards were all equal, something of a counter Oath Sakura made that she'd never let cards suffer. Sakura sighed and retrieved two cards from her special bag.

"At least the cards, I hope will be able to forgive me if they get used like this"

"Sakura, less worrying, more using…they are your cards" Syaoran spoke up "they love you just as much as you love them…no other master or mistress I know would give so much dedication to those cards"

Sakura looked at him for a moment. Before speaking,

"Thank you Syaoran, you know what so say when it counts"

Tomoyo and Eriol were indeed surprised by Syaoran; usually that was something that only Eriol would say. Sakura nodded and jumped into his arms. All at once; Syaoran's now well known blush quickly came to action, as did Tomoyo's subconscious flick of the wrist to relieve an active camera and Eriol's quiet Smile.

Unaware to the small group below, a white blob or stick of light grey tracked in between the undergrowth and the trees, the white cover of a bare mountain face removed this thing from hiding; in what appears to be a lump of snow moving; but the mere fact was it was a dangerous thing, it was a he and he was an agent on the move. The man was a rookie; not something he would admit too. Being someone of that position; it meant he would always get disgraceful jobs, like Japan. The man stumbled around, the steep angle of the hill made it impossible to walk and stay balanced for very long. The view he receives gives him a perfect view of the house and the field in front of it. The spy gives up trying to walk, and finds some place to sit, the sun was setting and he hadn't a clue were he was. Where he sat, he looked.

"I've spent two years in the academy; I did seven years as a marine, and for what? Some weak posting in an allied country that wouldn't deal with terrorists even if they had the…" The man slipped off the log, he didn't believe in karma or anything suspicious in that nature, he didn't care much for the environment around him either; he thought very little of anything that wasn't capability of killing more then five people, or keeping him alive. He decided to stop walking and rest on a fallen log. The agent then pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth,

"Brats" the agent thought to himself looking down at the house as looked for his lighter "Hope there parents are drug dealers or at least North Korean, maybe I can do them in for that"

Eventually he found a lighter, but as he started to light it; The suddenly wind picked up, blowing right at him and defusing the lighter flame. The mysterious karma he carried pushed against him again. The agent became angry and tried to re-light his cigarette. When he eventually re-lit it, he heard the strangest sound. He looked up to the lodge again; then agent paused for a second in awe. In his gaze, he didn't notice the cigarette suddenly drop out of his mouth and onto the snow. The Sound and noise came in the direction of the logde; The most amazing thing he'd ever seen suddenly flashed in front. He reached into his front side bag for his GRE-110 high focus zoom record camera. When it was finally on, the flash had died down, instead, what appeared to be four teenagers stood in the open plain.

"What the…" The man stared through the camera scope, just as he was about to use profanity, a girl with a pink stick started to speak, to herself; the result of this speech started when a small bright circle appeared underneath the young girl. He could barely here her speaking, but then a flash. Inside the whirlwind around this girl, a dark blue stream burst out of small piece of paper evaporating as the blue stream flew out.

The blue stream arced high and hit the ground. The agent starred in awe as it spread out across the enclosed area and formed a perfect circle, not denting the ground or causing any damage. As soon as this spectacle was over, another blight flash occurred; the agent turned his attention to the girl who again was repeating the words she said before, the motionless wind picked around her, the ground light up around her feet; another burst flashed, out of the boom a tower of frost and light blue flew up in a more gradual arc then the previous.

The Agent for all of his wisdom didn't keep near enough film to stay recording for long, in order to be operational, he would require film for his GRE-110, and a Navy issued Night vision camera, for about twenty four hours. He had enough power and film in them for thirty minutes. His spare batteries, other camera's and night gear were at least three miles from his location. The agent would lose valuable data if he wasn't careful. After the noise and winds had subsided, the agent kept a firm eye on the girl with the staff.

Inside the agents mind; the only questions were "What is that?" and "why are they using it?" he thought as watching the four teenagers head back to there homestead.

"We go make the ice pond, but we don't have our stakes, where are our minds these days?" Tomoyo laughing; Sakura however, still thought about the cards, which for a moment defocused her attention on were she was walking. Syaoran held her arm as to prevent her walking into a tree.

"I hope that the cards don't mind I'm using them for this, like…they are like my friends too" Sakura pondering,

"Sakura-Chan, you heard the mirror card's testimony, they like you as their card mistress; they'd do anything for you, no matter how insignificant the task" Tomoyo spoke.

"It's true" Eriol spoke "You don't think Clow-san didn't use it like this, and cards do not feel pain unless you yourself are in pain"

Sakura jerked her head towards Eriol momentary; Sakura heard the two words that kept punching her feelings in. Sakura responded,

"Eriol-kun, I'm not Clow-san, Clow-san had greater respect within the cards, I didn't create them, and I didn't do anything great"

Eriol interrupted Sakura for the moment,

"Sakura-Chan, I told you twice before; you are you, and Clow-san was himself"

Sakura took it meaningful and metaphoric; Eriol had actually said it once to Sakura. But Eriol certainly was referring to the time Sakura went back and visited Clow Reed in the past. The original master's words inspired Sakura to defeat Eriol in a final battle. Sakura felt funny that she had actually fought Eriol, and here he was standing and still being helpful. Without any relationship to the subject; Tomoyo started giggled behind Sakura.

"Do we all have to go get our skates, can't you go get them for me" Tomoyo spoke, motioning to both Syaoran and Eriol.

Syaoran and Eriol looked at Tomoyo, then at each other, and then commenced a race making a dash straight for the house. Sakura wondered were the logic was in what Tomoyo said; Tomoyo was known for having fun with common situations; Or setting up Eriol and Syaoran in some kind of contest. In some aspects; Tomoyo felt it was competition on who had the best boyfriend, Sakura normally didn't care, and it wasn't something that you could gamble on.

"You wanted to do that, didn't you Tomoyo-Chan" Sakura breathed a weak sigh. Tomoyo replied with a nod and a giggle, making Sakura smile as well. Despite how Syaoran and Eriol's evolved friendship was, there were still some ice thorns that appeared between them. Syaoran had some need to prove he was better; almost every time Eriol won a competition, Tomoyo usually made a deal out of it, and this taunt usually drove Syaoran nuts.

Syaoran and Eriol were neck to neck when they reached the door. Sakura and Tomoyo stood outside of the lodge quietly waiting for their return; the quiet was only in existence for less than a minute. The noise of returned as Syaoran and Eriol bolted out of the building neck and neck each carrying two pairs of skating boots. The tidal force of Syaoran and Eriol's run by almost knocked Sakura and Tomoyo of their feet. Sakura turned around and watched them stop, Syaoran gives Sakura her pair and Eriol gives Tomoyo her pair. Sakura and Tomoyo notice and inspect there boots, Sakura then giggles a bit.

"Um Syaoran-kun" Sakura giggled "This is Tomoyo-Chan's skating boots"

Once the judgment of who won the race was settled, Sakura deeming it a draw; Sakura and Tomoyo changed their boots and began to go off and skate. Syaoran and Eriol followed suit a few minutes later. Syaoran then jumped on to the ice and started to skate, not as bad as in previous years. Sakura had taught him over the years how to Skate, in exchange for Syaoran teaching Sakura martial arts. While everyone skated on the ice; above in the hillsides and among the bushes, the CIA wondered closer to the ground.

"I need to get closer" the agent said to himself. The agent started to traverse down the side of the mountain, slowly getting closer to the ground level. He managed to get within a one hundred meters he crept into the bush and looked forward towards the four teenagers, whom were completely unaware that they were being watched. He watched on as Sakura and Tomoyo were moving on the ice field. He carefully observes Sakura most of all, and watched her every move; carefully trying to gain the answer to the secret of her powers.

"Hey Sakura-Chan!" Tomoyo spoke "Smile!"

Sakura turned around and started to skate facing backwards. Tomoyo then slung out her video camera and began to record; Sakura performed some tricks for the camera. The agent in the bush noted name of her target.

"S-u-k-r-a-c-h-a-n" the agent noting the girl's name into, and obliviously bad at translation, completely forgetting about the suffix.

Sakura smiled; as she turned back to Tomoyo. Syaoran over took Sakura and suddenly slowed down, Syaoran lost his balance and fell, again.

"Sakura-Chan! Look out!" Tomoyo yelled.

Sakura made a turn to face forward and saw Syaoran directly ahead. Sakura immediately attempted to stop, but was too late; she tripped forward and landed right onto Syaoran's chest. Sakura's forced impact made Syaoran slide along for at least three meters until they came to a stop. Syaoran was pushed into the hardened ice; although Sakura was a comfortable weight on top of him, the freezing cold ice was close to unbearable.

"Sakura-Chan, You okay?" Tomoyo spoke, sliding to a stop.

"Yes" Sakura responded. Tomoyo paused for a minute to examine the 'interesting' scene unfolding, focusing the camera on Syaoran who just starred into the camera; hoping it would explode or something.

"I don't wish to be rude, but can you get off me, the ice is starting to freeze my back" Spoke Syaoran.

"I'm so sorry, Syaoran-kun" Sakura spoke, quickly jumped up off Syaoran. Eriol looked up at the hills towards the sunset and down at his watch. He approached the trio and helped Syaoran up.

"Look at the time, it's almost 5, we should call it a day" Eriol said

"I suppose so, time for dinner" Tomoyo agreeing

Sakura agreed and everyone got off the ice, Sakura then transformed the water and ice into cards again.

"That was a fun day Sakura-Chan" Tomoyo spoke.

"I suppose so" Syaoran said walking slower.

Sakura turned to Syaoran "Are you alright? Let me help you"

"Ok" Sakura takes Syaoran's arm and they walk helping Syaoran keep balance.

Meanwhile, the agent runs without his backpack, only with a torch and his camera. He runs thought terrain, leaving a path of destruction behind him, a sign of is disrespect for nature if Sakura were to see this. He found a road and ran down until he saw a unmarked black van parked on the side.

"Liven those wires, I found something over the ridge back there"

Sitting in the back of the truck was another man, short in height and smoking cigarettes like oxygen. He was oblivious board, having a dart board on the wall with pictures of his ex-wife and some other person.

"Agent 564, you haven't found a thing here, and you want to know why? Because them top brass don't care about what we do, they put us here because we are the only unit in Asia that is unable to keep track of anyone" The radio operator spoke "and we are unable to make so many mistakes, out here"

"Well the pentagon is wrong" The agent spoke back "I thought the same, until I saw this"

The Agent grabs his camera and hands to the radio operator. He inserts a HiFire Cable and rewinds it to before the magic stunt. Hooks it to the computer and plays the tape. The image was fuzzy at best, but it was a good enough image to see the people. It gradually got better as the camera tumbled around. The only odd thing was a loud windy noise.

"I don't see anything suspect" The Radio Operator spoke.

"Just keep an eye on this girl" the agent pointing at the screen.

"She reminds me of my daughter" The Radio Operator joked, "in which I cannot see because my wife…says I'm a bad influence" the Radio operator mocking his ex-wife.

The video plays, hearing the noise of Agent 564 lighting up. Then the girl there watching speaks, as she does a small white ball appears and opens to a staff. The Radio operator drops his cigarette he had in his mouth. They watch the entire video.

"Well?"

"That's not going to stand up as a case" The operator spoke "Get move evidence and it then I'll send it"

"Sure"

The agent went to a cabinet and grabbed a second bag full of camera gear, microphones and other night gear. The agent set out back towards to where he left his bag. Knowing for once he had a job he could do. He ran thought the same path he took and reached the lodge just after sunset. Snow started lightly fall around him, he established himself no more the three hundred meters in the thick snow already falling on him.

"Great, it's going to a cold and boring night" the agent speaks as he watches the lodge dinning room.

The intermission of quiet outside kept him saying nothing and him lunching from a distance, he gazed at them alone, no parents around. He stared intensely at Sakura, something that innocent holding so much power. He stared and waited. He grabbed his silencer gun and pointed it at the house; it fired a stringy rope and anchor at the top of the overhang outside the dinning room. The Projectile hit the snow on top; a stringy cable connected to the bullet is wired to a recorder and earpiece. Inside Sakura and Tomoyo were taking plates out to the table. A brief sound of wood being knocked was heard. The agent froze stiff when Tomoyo looked in the direction of the impact

"Sakura-Chan" Tomoyo spoke "did you hear something outside, just now?"

"Not really" Sakura responded.

The girls continue laying out the table for four people, completely ignoring the thing that caught Tomoyo's attention. The agent tugged the line a bit to make the hook sink in to the gutter. After some time setting up; he then lay and waited for them to spill the secrets of SukraChan's Powers, although he a strange feeling that was spelt wrong. Inside Sakura and Tomoyo and Syaoran were sitting to dinner, while Eriol was cooking something.

"It's been a great weekend Tomoyo-Chan" Sakura complemented "Its being so nice recently that we haven't had any problems"

"I'm glad you're enjoying yourself Sakura-Chan" Tomoyo replied.

"Well its not over yet" Eriol speaking, as he brought the dinner out "I hope you enjoy it"

"Thank you, it looks fantastic" Sakura.

The group of four speak in there version of grace. They then enjoyed each others company in the sharing of meal, or more like a feast to Sakura. The Agent from outside looked at them in, but he remained focused on the task at observing them. About half an hour later,

"Thank you for the dinner Eriol-kun" Complemented Sakura.

"I'm glad you enjoyed the meal"

"You're such a good cook Eriol-kun, but if cooked for me all the time I'd end up getting fat" Sakura joked.

"Well, Sakura-Chan I wouldn't that to happen, right Syaoran-kun" Syaoran pretended to take no notice and made a blank stare at Eriol from that comment, Sakura and Tomoyo giggled quietly. Syaoran did take some pride in Sakura's athletic ability, as Eriol did with Tomoyo's taste for art and cuisine.

In was only early in the evening; so Eriol and Syaoran were going to play billiards, hopefully Syaoran would actually win a game for once. In the meantime; Sakura and Tomoyo decided to go to the hot springs ad bath for some time. Tomoyo was quite proud of the hot spring bath that was located in an enclosed area attached to the house. It was a brisk cold weather, but the heat of the hot spring forced them into it. Sakura sat down in the water as Tomoyo was inside changing into her winter bath robes.

"Ah, Sakura-Chan, can you think of a better way to spend a weekend?" Tomoyo spoke, stepping into the hot spring.

"Depends where we go? Okinawa to Hokkaido; I can never think of place better then here" Sakura spoke gleefully. Tomoyo lay down and rested until only her head was above the water. Sakura was quietly thinking to herself, Tomoyo already knew exactly what it was she was worried about.

"Sakura-Chan, are you still thinking about this afternoon?"

"Kind of…" Sakura nodding,

Tomoyo sat up and looked over at Sakura. Tomoyo never got angry when Sakura was like this; she'd understand that ever since the mirror card had hurt Toya, Sakura felt that if she lost her grip, it could happen again. In the many cases were a Clow Card put someone at risk of serious injury; Sakura almost panic on the scene. Tomoyo could not figure out a way of comparing it to life, it simply was a fear that only Sakura could surpass.

"Sakura-Chan, tell me, when are you going to stop overprotecting of the Sakura Cards?"

"Tomoyo-Chan, I can't use them like this, its wrong, they deserve respect, and I can't use them at blind random, it's meant to be a secret"

"Sakura-Chan, what's that noise?" Tomoyo spoke suddenly,

Sakura tried to hear it, nothing expect the bamboo pipe swinging into a pipe outlet. Tomoyo nodded and sat down into the water. Eriol and Syaoran were too busy playing pool, so it could only be one thing.

"I think we should let mirror join us, Sakura-Chan"

Sakura got out of the water and walked back into the changing room where her cards were. When the void card had almost cost Sakura and everyone their life; Sakura made it a unspoken rule that her cards would be inside the book 24/7 unless used. It meant that Sakura would have to lug the book around as well, but it meant that her cards had a magic seal protection. Meanwhile outside, the agent was rewinding the cable microphone. He had a hard time retracting the cable and resulted in snapping a piece of wood on the building off.

"Dammed to hell, I cannot here a thing they are saying…all I'm hearing now is the two guys yakking about balls" The agent radioing the Van.

"Hey what did I say about communications?"

"Oh please, what could you possibly be doing sitting down at a console? The only thing that you can do is listening to the conversations of these teenager weirdoes"

"Whatever, just cut the chatter and throw the hook again, this time use the camera and audio hook"

The agent grabbed his gun and placed the hook the barrel, this time pointing it towards the spa bath area. This time, he hit a tree, but it was okay; the camera could see straight into the open door spa.

"Cable in place, what you got?"

"Oh, just the goodies out of those two girls from before"

"They bathing…naked?" the agent thought for a moment about Japanese baths, if reputations were true, he had to get a screen to watch, quickly he grabbed his GRE-110 and placed a cable line into the camera. Automatically the screen showed a steamed open air spa bath, but Tomoyo and Sakura were wearing full length bath robes in the water.

"Man, you're desperate or just perverted" the radio operator laughed into the agent's headset, "Hang on, something's happening, our target just went inside, rotate camera up two degrees"

The agent picked up the GRE-110 and used the keypad on the back to start moving the camera remotely. The Camera went up and showed Sakura walking into the change room; the door was left wide open. But Sakura was visible, reaching into a book.

"A book? Why would she bring the book like that into a bath area?"

"Don't know, the Japanese are crazy people"

While the two CIA people were left unknown to Sakura and Tomoyo; Sakura went to the work of bring mirror out of sleep. Sakura came out moments later with a single card and her key. Sakura then did her customary check, which this time actually had merit.

"Sakura-Chan, nobody would come looking here, if they did, Syaoran-Kun would've pounded them into dust by now"

"That's true"

Sakura opened her staff, and then opened the mirror card to produce the identical self, Sakura never came to understand why the mirror Card 'liked' Sakura's image; Sakura long ago said to mirror that she could take any form that was pleasing mirror. Mirror hadn't changed her appearance opting to be like Sakura, although with knowing Sakura since she was ten; Mirror sometimes transformed in Sakura from any period in the last four years. Indeed were both embarrassing for Sakura and helped Tomoyo remind how cute she saw back then.

"Good evening, Tomoyo-san, Good Evening Sakura-sama" the mirror card this time decided to look like Sakura at age twelve. Sakura was felt cold every time the mirror Card or 'Millie' as Tomoyo called it; referred to Sakura as her superior. She had try to convince the Mirror Card to just call her 'Sakura-Chan'.

"Mirror-san, please just call me 'Sakura-Chan'. I dislike it when you call me your superior" Sakura half embarrassed. The mirror nodded her head as the mistress calmly invited her into the hot springs bath.

"How have you been Millie-Chan?" Tomoyo spoke cheerfully, Mirror obliviously couldn't report much, mainly because Sakura was increasingly secure grip on her movement. It wasn't Sakura's fault that she'd never went anywhere, Sakura needed to remain quiet about her magic in any matter, regardless of he situation or location. Tomoyo as often as possible would be a friendly as possible to Sakura's duplicate, for a moment; Tomoyo thought how lonely it would be to be sitting in the card waiting to be used, when her master was half afraid to use the cards.

"I cannot believe it came down to this, remember the old days when you used the cards?" Tomoyo smiled at Mirror "We never got caught, despite breaking into school dozens of times, a art gallery, Tokyo Tower…and you're worried about being caught"

"Tomoyo-Chan, that was then" Sakura paused "remember all the stories that followed the final judgment with Yue-san? People were Scared the next day when they saw that the radio transmitters attach to the tower and windows were completely smashed…we could never do that again"

Tomoyo thought to herself; it was true that for the three weeks after the battle with Yue; Tokyo police were conducting a full scale investigation into the damage sustained on the tower and two buildings. Also there was the unexplained earthquake earlier that same day; which subsequently disappeared everywhere, expect on the detectors at the university of Tokyo. Sakura had to learn the consequences of her past actions, even if she was inexperienced then. It still resulted in fearing that her secret would expose, if she was careless. The Cards became more a burden then a gift; Sakura wondered sometimes if it was best if she just resealed the book, and open it when the time was right.

"It's just too dangerous now" Sakura sighed,

"I suppose so" Tomoyo nodded.

Mirror sat quietly on her own, worried about Sakura's thoughts. It was abnormal for a card to have or care for the feelings for their owner, but Mirror was a consistent exception to the rule. Mirror shifted over towards Sakura, with a saddened look. Sakura understood that mirror took her words seriously enough; it made it easy sometimes, but other occasions, it was annoying. Sakura calmed Mirror down my gently hugging her, a sign that she respected her cards, despite the pressure on her.

Sakura stood up and proceeded to the change room, Tomoyo remained sitting as Mirror move over to her.

"Tomoyo-Chan, I think I'm done bathing, you done?"

"Almost, I'll be in a few minutes" Tomoyo relaxing herself in the shot spring "You going to see who one tonight's game?"

"I think so, Syaoran sounds like her lost though" Sakura giggling,

Sakura entered the Changing room and closed a door behind her, leaving Tomoyo and Mirror to relax for a few minutes before she had to go to inside.

"Does Sakura-Chan ever worry you when she's like that?"

Mirror silently nodded a yes. The Mirror card opted to not speak; Tomoyo once was disturbed by the face that she was soundly like Sakura. Tomoyo looked at herself for a moment; it was around about time she got sleep. Tomoyo got up and helped Mirror or 'Milly' to the changing room. Inside Sakura was just finishing changing.

Outside the agent was both confused and amazed by what he had just seen. Some things were now apparent.

"You finish watching the peep show?" the radio operator joking "I swear they were not expecting that"

"Just let me get the details straight" the agent scribing on his notepad several things "Okay; confirm target name is known as Skurchan, the second female suspect is confirm known as tomtochn, and apparently this is some kind of black magic. She can create a mirror image of herself, not really accurate though; the duplicate seemed to be shorter and possibly or deliberately appearing like the main suspect at a younger age…"

"Yea, yea, magic blah! Blah! Blah...dam those two girls were good looking…"

"Is the only thing you think about girls? Maybe this is why your wife left you! And maybe why she won't let you see your daughter!"

"Shadup! Just continue monitoring them" the radio connection broke off.

Inside; Sakura, Tomoyo and 'Milly' met up with Eriol and a defeated looking Syaoran-kun.

"Defeated again?" Sakura asked

"Ten matches and I lost every…single…one"

Milly stood behind Tomoyo kind of scared that her former master was just opposite the bar. It wasn't like he was the man himself, but the Sakura Cards could defect his aura after being with him for so long. Milly stepped out from Tomoyo and stood alone.

"Oh my, Milly-Chan, you've decided to join us" Eriol smiled, as he spoke the clock hit ten in the evening.

Sakura spoke "I don't know about you three, but I'm tired"

"I agree" Tomoyo-Chan speaking and yawning.

"I think its best that we call it a night" Eriol announced. "And does Milly-Chan want to sleep in a bed tonight?"

Milly nodded slowly, quickly retreating behind Sakura, who giggled. The four plus Milly begin upstairs to there rooms, Syaoran and Sakura in one and Tomoyo and Eriol in the other. Tomoyo directed Milly to a spare room, inside was a warm room with a large four post bed. Milly wondered inside and felt the pillows and mattress. It was a soft and warm layer, perfect for anyone to sleep in.

"This was my room when my mother took me up her as a young child"

The room indeed did have relics of an era past; Tomoyo's favorite doll from childhood, her teddy bear, many things that showed her peaceful upbringing. The Mirror card lay down on the bed and fell asleep almost immediately.

"I hope get some rest Millie-Chan, goodnight" Tomoyo hugging her and walked out of the room. Outside; Eriol, Sakura and Syaoran were waiting for Tomoyo to close the door.

"You're going to be such a great mother one day Tomoyo-Chan" Sakura giggling.

Tomoyo joined in giggling for a minute, afterwards everyone went to the respective rooms, Sakura and Syaoran in one, Tomoyo and Eriol in the other, inside each was a spacious queen size bed and a bathroom.

"Good night Tomoyo-Chan" Sakura spoke tired.

"Good night Sakura-Chan" Tomoyo giggling still.

Syaoran went to the bathroom while Sakura went and changed into her new night gown Tomoyo had given Sakura for her birthday the previous week.

"I'm just so tired Syaoran-kun"

"Almost done"

Soon enough Syaoran came in wearing sleepwear in the case of winter were full length sleep wear like Sakura.

"It was a good day today, and a nice dinner that fill me up, and I'm with the person I love the most" Sakura said half asleep, turned over to face

Syaoran hugged Sakura around the waist "I know, I did as well"

"Good night Syaoran-kun"

"Good night Sakura-Chan"

Syaoran turned the light out and both fell asleep.

Outside in the frost, a cold and tired agent waited, he considered just going back to the van with the data he got, but knowing the radio operator, he would be surfing the internet or viewing that footage again, he sometimes wondered how sick people were to join the CIA and do things like that.

"So her name is Skurachan, her friend is tomtochn, but the other two names of the male suspects…unknown" The agent stood in the dark cold waiting for something to happen. He was about to leave when the audio buoy again attached to the house picked something up. He picked up the ear peace and listened to somebody whispering.

"Sakura-Chan" Syaoran spoke softly.

"Huh? Syaoran-kun it's three in the morning"

"Let's go for a walk" Syaoran spoke,

"Okay, if I'm with you"

"You will be Sakura-Chan" Syaoran putting on something warm for the walk.

Outside the Agent quickly pressed the retract level on the cable line. It disconnected with ease this time, unlike before when it was near the hot springs; it snapped a branch, lucky not to attract attention. Sakura and Syaoran stepped outside and walked into the open, above them Sakura's eye's lit up. Syaoran and Sakura stepped into the open where a half moon shone over them.

Syaoran the spoke "Let's go"

The agent listened carefully slowly grabbed an audio recorder and GRE-110 and left his post. Sakura and Syaoran began their trek up the mountain to the summit; far behind was the agent following them. At the summit that looked far over the valley below, and far off towards the east coast. Sakura and Syaoran stood before end edge of the peak, and gaze at the first light of the new day Syaoran hugs Sakura's waist and speaks to her.

"Good Morning Sakura-Chan" Syaoran softly whispers in her ear.

Sakura and Syaoran embrace the sun's first rays on this pristine part of the world. The trees fed the new light that shone into the deep valley below them. Mountain sides begin to light on the mountains. Birds awoke and chirped, and flew into the valley.

"Syaoran, you want to fly down with me"

"If it's possible, I will"

In the bush, less the twenty meters away, the agent held on to his breath. One tiny move would blow his cover, he moved his GRE-110 out and focused it on Sakura only. Sakura grabbed out a card from her pocket and suspended the key on its string.

"Yes Sakura, show me your secret" the agent though, have the perfect chance to capture what she had on film.

Sakura stood in the center of the opening near the edge, Syaoran on the near side watching. She recited the incantation that would open her staff, and extracted the fly card from her pack.

"Fly, form wings on my staff"

The fly's sprit emerged from the card and took shape around the staff, and formed two wings at the end, Sakura and Syaoran Climbed on and took off. They flew in close with the birds, gracing in time with the morning breeze, the started to descend down the mountain on Sakura's staff, watching her above now, the agent emerged from hiding, and looked at the duo fly back to the lodge.

"Enjoy it now Skurachan, soon you'll regret using those cards"

The agent ran down the hill and took a sharp right for the van. After a few manic style falls on his three kilometer dash for the van, he eventually reached the van parked. The radio operator was standing outside with a camper grill.

"Top of the morning idiot, you get the pictures? And where is your stuff?

"Just Start working, we have got to get this all to the pentagon immediately"

Location: the Pentagon, Washington D.C, United States of America

Date: April 8th, 2007

Time: 18:20hrs

Halfway around the world, it was Saturday evening still in the city of smoke; the air is filled smog from the cars that kept blocking the main avenues. Not far from the home of the most powerful person, lies a building of five sides. Inside these walls are the most dangerous minds in the business, minds that craved destruction of its foes and the installment of fear into its enemies. The temperature drops around the grey walls of this building, inside, it is colder as if to the journey to center of a the installer of hate and the bringer of death.

In side the maze of wards of the office of high command, a young man in dark navy uniform dashes hastily thought the dark corridors, cutting through other person's progress, the man runs as fast as he can towards an elevator, entering, he immediately presses the top floor button a few times. The door closes with a silent bang and goes rises to the top floor. The young man continues his journey into a ward room on the side reads 'National Strategic Service Command' He enters the office to the end. Sitting at the desk, was an old grunted dog-of-war; A man of many combatant years, evident by the ribbons he wore. He appeared to have a hunch, or a demeanor hate towards his former enemy. His desk composing of various papers, his Vietnam war era combat knife, a bottle of brandy, and a box of cigars; Columbian, not Cuban.

The old man rose from his seat like a silent beast and looked towards the younger officer slowly. The old man was a general, five stars to say the least. The young man stood and saluted sharply, the old man did as just, but in a slower more relaxed sense.

"Son, what gives you the courage to pass through two armed guards and approach the you're most senior commander;, what could a lieutenant possible need to say" the old general spoke with a grunge in his voice "Speak up solider, I'm not a loving man when my time is wasted"

"General Sir; I have just received a Emergency Action Message from the Japanese CIA operations, patched through from Langley" Spoke the young man.

"Son, why the hell are you telling me this bull? There are other people that take care of that certain matter in regard to what those egg heads in Langley think is a global threat, you report to your commanding officer, and he'll submit me a report…"

"Sir, my commanding officer, told me to go to you, sir" interrupted the young man

"Solider, watch your mouth in front of me, I'm the highest ranking commander in the entire United States military" the old man snapped at the young lieutenant.

"I'm sorry sir, but please read this before you make a further comment, sir"

The general receives the piece of paper and reads quickly, we scans quickly and then stops on something, and brings his eyes to the top of the paper again slowly reading it again, when he finishes, we read it two more times before putting it down onto the lieutenant's hand.

"What the hell is this, Harry potter? Are we placing a CIA agent to spy on J. K. Rowling? This low grade stuff is becoming a joke"

"Sir with all due respect, the audio and video evidence is being downloaded; I suggest that you call a meeting…"

"I want to 'see' the audio and video before I start calling meetings lieutenant!" I do not call the president or secretary of defense based on some agent's cocky report. For all we know, they probably got high and started typing stuff with no proof"

The lieutenant retrieved a buzz from his pocket pager and spoke,

"That must mean that the data has arrived and sent to you sir"

The general walked over to the computer on his desk, after clicking a few folders. He opened a file called 'Card Captor Sakura'. He watched the entire twenty minute clip, but ignored the photographs, it was enough information to sallow. The general reached down and picked up the red phone dialing the top speed-dial button on the phone.

"Yes, get me the secretary of defense…I don't care what meeting, get me the war cabinet and assemble them at the white house, get me the chief of the CIA in my office" the general spoke "alert the president, we have a crisis"

Location: The white House, Washington D.C, United States of America

Date: April 8th, 2007

Time: 20:30 hrs

Inside the situation room, about a dozen men had been gathered and were sitting at the table await the command and chief to arrive; The General's and Admirals of the various wings of the American Armed forces.

"Gentlemen please" said the spokesperson, the same lieutenant that interrupted the General was now ordered to conduct the meeting.

"What have you called us for?" said an admiral of the navy "No details, no nothing…Calling us all here is a waste of time"

"Gentlemen, we could not tell you because we are still without an explanation on this thing"

"So why have you called us"

"Because after you leave this room gentlemen, your understanding of world power will be changed forever" Spoke the chief commander of the military "shall we begin?"

The doors opened, entering the most powerful man in the world, the president sits at his seat and speaks,

"Okay, I had a dinner tonight, I'm going to have supporters wondering were there leader is, now why have you dragged me here"

"General, Mr. President, what we are about to show you must remain a high priory of secret, there is to be no disclosure what so ever in regard to what we are about to see" The secretary of defense spoke sternly "lieutenant?"

"Yes sir, lights please" The officer spoke, the lights dimmed and a projector turned on "Gentlemen, the last 24 hours have been a mixture of many things, on thing in particular is this person here"

A Picture of Sakura and hold her staff from 300 meters away

"Who or what is this?" The president exclaimed,

"This sir is the first proven case of supernatural power ever to be record; it goes by the name of Skurachn. Our operation team has being lucky to spot this abnormally, Skurachan and three of her associates in the previous 24 hours, using something with great power. Sakura is in passion of what we have come to know as magic cards, containing an incredible amount of force with seem to obey to her every whim. Despite Skurachan seems a disordering person, but appears to act seemly normal"

"Secretary, before you lag us on with this fairy tale, can you assert to me that there is proof?"

"That is were we can help you" the speaker replied "The agent that was more then lucky to of spot this event was able to remain unseen to the person in question, on three occasions, this video is the entire footage shown during an event about twenty eight hours ago, twenty four hours ago and again four hours ago"

"Gentlemen, I received this same order less then two hours ago, I couldn't believe my eyes either, until you see this" the chief of the CIA spoke.

The speaker commenced the showing of the first film entirely. When it concluded, the entire room exploded into argument, air force commanders and admirals made statement threats of what the two magic forces shown could do to there planes and ships, the army generals were starting to talk about the public reaction if they kidnapped her.

"There is more; despite the unusual circumstances of this next film being shot, we wish for you to understand and concentrate on the magic occurrence" The second film started playing, on the screen; Sakura was in the hot springs with Tomoyo. Sakura walked up to the room, pulled a card out of a box and undid the key. Quickly as ever the key was undone and Sakura went to work using the Card. The motion pause as the mirror card's true form appeared in front of Sakura.

"Why'd you freeze frame?" the president asked,

"Because this is the cards true form, what you'll see next is just unexplainable" the lieutenant continued playing the tape. The mirror card then took on the image of Sakura; younger, but almost identical to the real person.

"Impossible, this Skurachan can clone herself?"

"Apparently so, sir; the implications of this 'card' could make facial identification impossible"

"This card?" a General spoke

"Yes; the power source of these beings are stored in card that evaporates when they are used, it is assumed that the card is the beings form when not used"

Everyone in the room spoke for a minute arguing at each other.

"Gentlemen" he president spoke up "We are dealing with a threat Gentlemen, a threat to the united states and this world, I think we should act"

"We have no solid evidence yet. But we do know that; for something like this, she can not be alone in her actions, her friends we suspect might have be involved in the creation of such powerful weapons" the lieutenant spoke

Another General spoke up "and how many of these 'cards' does she have?"

"Fifty, possibly fifty-five cards; a photograph here, shown her removing what is known as the 'fly' card, gives us a proper view of how many cards Skurachan might have. The practical card she is taking to use, made this staff capable of aerial fight, not just only did it support her, but this other person as well, he at this time have no idea who's his name is or what his relation with the main suspect"

The speaker shows footage of the 'fly card, being used, an then air force commander spoke,

"Do we have any clue what range, speed, flight ceiling the 'fly' card has?"

"Not at this time" the lieutenant answered "Gentlemen that conclude all the information gathered here, our operatives have reported that the suspects have left heading south, we have identified the number plate of the vehicle and as we speak tracing were movements"

"Mr. President? Your comments"

"Gentlemen, what we have seen is the most unusual thing I've ever seen in all my years, what possibility could have this person decided to overrun this government?"

"Considering what we have seen so far, it's possible; but we need to know what the other fifty cards can do"

The president thought for a minute and fiddling with his pen; He looked at everyone in the room and stood up to address the joint chief staff.

"…and every democratic country on he face of he earth, Gentlemen, we are going to capture her and he friends; and expose Skurachan for the true evil she is, you have two weeks. Admiral"

"Yes Sir?"

"I want you to get every available warship in the pacific within two hundred miles of the East Asian coast"

"Sir; that is about five hundred warships; three of which are aircraft carriers"

"That'll have to do for now; we have to assume that Skurachan isn't the only person in possession of these things, there must be at least two hundred or more people like Skurachan working in that region"

Everyone was surprise and yet concerned; such a force of that size would completely destabilize the world if they chose to attack. The generals around the table looked carefully at the president; his face then told them work had to be done.

Location: Tomoda High School, Tomoda, Japan

Date: April 22nd, 2007

Time: 12:30hrs

Around in the air, the mood changes as the seasons start to change. The sun appears strong and dominant, the trees and flowers re-incarnate once more. Sakura enjoys this time the most around Tomoda, the season of re-birth, meaning and love. Once more the lined streets of cherry blossoms bloom. Whilst the spring bloomed in this area, the CIA were closing in on their target behind all of this, the presence of an evil lurks and appears in and around the world of Sakura's unspoiled home.

In between the clean serenity of the cherry blossoms that Sakura passes lurks a black smudge in the portrait. Sakura and her fellowship are unaware of the presence of eyes watching them closely. There lives were been the center of attention for two weeks. Those who are interested were only interested in one thing that they rarely showed, there magic. One cloudy day had come upon the quiet city of Tomoda, Sakura wouldn't realize it yet, but today would become what would be to be the last day of comforting freedom in there souls.

As now a young a beautiful lady, Sakura walks down the halls of the High school, a tall slender body she had reinforced her quiet and opening hope that could break a heart of stone. Sakura walked down the hall with her long time accomplice and true friend of friends; Tomoyo. Tomoyo has since in the time admitted her feelings about Sakura and how she felt when Syaoran came into her life, but remains happy to see her grow up from the side and that herself and Sakura are constantly happy together.

A lot has changed since the last card was sealed. Tomoyo has grown up along side Sakura as an equally beautiful lady, Tomoyo sometimes lived with Eriol when her ever busy mother went abroad. Tomoyo learnt a lot more about life through Eriol's reincarnated mind of Clow. Learning about Sakura in ways she never thought of. Eriol always enjoyed his girlfriend's company and love. Making him find new love as his predecessor did once. They lived happily together, Eriol always making Tomoyo beautiful and tasty dinners; Tomoyo quite enjoyed them, so much that she at a stage was starting to get noticeable softer. Tomoyo spent many hours with Eriol in front of a fire in a private room at home together.

Sakura and Tomoyo were walking down the halls of Tomoda High school, remising memories of the days of when Sakura was a card captor. Unaware of the presence that she was attracting. Sakura and Tomoyo continued to the court yard where Syaoran and Eriol were discussing something in private. Sakura stopped at the flight of stairs and stopped Tomoyo.

"Look, over there" Sakura whispered to Tomoyo

"What could they be talking about" Tomoyo whispered back.

"Let's give them some privacy" Sakura spoke.

Tomoyo agreed and went with Sakura down another flight of stairs towards were Rita, Naoko and Chiharu were sitting. In the medium, Syaoran and Eriol stand in the corner of the Courtyard. Both were hiding in the shadow the building was allowing to give privacy to there important discussion.

"Syaoran-kun, have you found your ring?" Eriol asked almost sternly "Remember our pact"

"Yes Eriol-kun" Syaoran answered "So why have you brought me here?"

"Two reasons Syaoran-kun" Eriol explained "Firstly, tonight I'm going to propose to my beloved Tomoyo-Chan, just before she sings tonight are the concert"

"I was waiting for you to say that, but for my reasons, I'll pick a more peaceful setting, I want us to go to Penguin Park after the concert, so I can propose to Sakura-Chan" Syaoran answered and explained "Tonight, I want to make it the most memorable night of all our lives"

"That's also another the second thing we must talk about, I believe that our honor of protecting our beloveds may be put to the test tonight as well" Eriol warned as Sakura began to approach "I fear that our lives may change in more ways then one"

Syaoran stared at Eriol blankly, and then resumed his gaze to something else. Sakura approaches and meets, they then all move of to eat lunch.

Location: Tomoda High School Auditorium

Date: April 22nd, 2007

Time: 18:30hrs

The night was becoming cold and the weather seemed to be clear that night, Sakura wore a dress Tomoyo made for the event, lined in purple and blue Saturn silk, with a fleshly picked Cherry Blossom on the top left corner on the strap. Syaoran wore a formal outfit as did Eriol, who quite more looked like an old English gentlemen then a young Japanese magician.

As Sakura moved up the stairs, Syaoran looked at her for a minute as she seamlessly was slower then normal self, Eriol and Tomoyo walked into an empty corridor whist Sakura and Syaoran waited in the foyer for Eriol to return, Syaoran looked at Sakura closely, she seemed edgy and quite nervous. Syaoran confronted her with concern.

"Why are you feeling edgy tonight?" Syaoran asked.

Sakura opened her eyes more and spoke almost shaking "I felt a presence of something on the way home today, I haven't felt it in so long. When I got home I did a reading of my future"

Syaoran looked at her almost in surprise, almost nothing scared her "What did your future tell you?"

Sakura took a breath and quietly spoke "My worst fear will come true tonight"

Syaoran stood there and looked at Sakura almost start to cry, he stepped towards her and let Sakura's head fall into her chest as Sakura was about to cry and calmed her back, softly hugging Sakura's warm skin. Sakura looked at her and warmed herself again; Sakura lit her eyes again and looked at her. Her soul warmed up and her tears dried.

"My cherry Blossom, no man or sprit will harm you; I promise that from tonight and every moment onwards that I will protect you when you are sick, weak or afraid, I shall be beside you"

Sakura hugged Syaoran more tightly, as they did Eriol and Tomoyo return to the foyer, Sakura confused by Tomoyo's extreme happiness, Eriol only giving Syaoran a wink to say that she has accepted.

"Sakura-Chan" Tomoyo spoke as they approached.

"Tomoyo-Chan, shouldn't you be backstage right now?"

Tomoyo exclaimed and giggled "I forgot"

"Tomoyo-Chan, how could you forget?"

"Um…I'll tell you afterwards" Tomoyo giggling even more.

Sakura stood there more confused as ever, trying to figure out what Eriol said that made her so happy.

"My Sakura-Chan dear, have you been crying?" Eriol commented.

Syaoran stood up straight and looked at him "She felt something" Syaoran spoke "Something of her fears coming to life"

Sakura felt both protected and confused by the exchange between Syaoran and Eriol, but she then made sense of everything and smiled.

"Thanks ok Sakura, everything will surely be alright" Syaoran spoke.

Sakura stood up and took Syaoran by the hand, then proceeded into the main hall with Eriol on her left and her most beloved on her right. Once the concert had concluded, the cheers of the crowds rumbled the heart of the young Tomoyo. She made her exited from the stage and proceeded to quickly change as she wanted to see the next thing to happen tonight. Sakura and Syaoran proceeded to the foyer, and decided that Eriol, Sakura and Syaoran would part ways for the meantime and wait while Eriol went to receive Tomoyo. Sakura and Syaoran exited the building and walked out and were gushed into the chilling cold air that bound them in the cold night. Sakura put on the coat she had brought and looked into the direction of the park.

"Sakura-Chan?" Syaoran asked politely.

"Yes Syaoran-kun" Sakura answering in a calm voice.

"You are still worried? About your fears"

"No, I'm just glad that tonight…that nothing had gone wrong" Sakura turned to hug Syaoran "Can you forgive me for acting sad before?"

"Oh course Sakura-Chan" Syaoran spoke "I always forgive you"

"Thank you" Sakura's eyes closed to appeal her tiredness "Lets go home"

As Syaoran and Sakura were about to kiss, he doors open with Eriol and Tomoyo walking out. Sakura and Syaoran pull back from a kiss but continue to hold each other. They eventually release each other and begin down the stairs and towards Penguin Park. The evening was fresh and cold, the water reflected like a mirror, a perfect reflection of the image above them in the night sky, an assembly of white dots blanketing the sky with a full moon at presence brightly over Tomoda, Sakura walked in time with Tomoyo as she waited to hear of Sakura's comments about her performance. As Sakura walked, she was blinded by a twinkle of bright light into her right eye. She rubbed it and tried to force its source of the light, the light of the moon reflected on a silver ring that now appeared on Tomoyo's Hand. Sakura skated around to face her.

"Tomoyo-Chan, since when did you have a ring on your finger?" Sakura ask her friend politely.

Tomoyo blushed and confronted to face Sakura, Syaoran started to sweat as he reached into his pocket for a small box.

"Before the concert, Eriol-kun came to me and…"

As Tomoyo was about to tell her, and as if it was the key note of a song; the ground rumbled as all of a sudden two loud explosions went off. Then everything went silent and in slow motion, The girls instantly screamed but the noise was muted, Syaoran quickly caught Sakura and covered her, onto the ground, they then looked at Eriol, Eriol looked at Tomoyo who was on her knees bleeding and saw a red light pointing at her, he ran towards her and jumped in front of her, facing her, the noise of bullets hitting flesh was the only noise auditable, still in slow motion Eriol body took shock waves of a bullet impacting in his back, he jolted 6 times, then his body hit the ground, he then rolled on to his back.

The silent was absorbed with sound again, and time resumed. Eriol mouth opened as air quickly escaped through his mouth, he's voice started to make only a light noise as he the air came out, he cold air crystallized his last breathes the noise of air exiting him, with the steam heat of his arm body starting to retreat out.

"Eriol!" Tomoyo yelled at the top of her lungs.

Tomoyo disregarded her own safety and came to Eriol body, she dropped right on to him and picked up her hand, he could barely speak but he tried to say a last word to her

"I…love…you…" Eriol's blue lips spoke words once more and stopped.

His face stopped moving, his eyes stopped blinking and came out of focus and motionless. Eriol's entire body slow became very pale; the pavement was being covered in a rich red substance, blood. Eriol was not moving at all, Eriol had died protecting his Beloved.

Tomoyo's body dropped onto her, crying in a burst. "Why, who could do such a thing?"

Sakura and Syaoran were surprised by the absence of action the got up and looked. As they walked to Tomoyo, the sound of gunfire cracked and rattled the trees and quickly Sakura and Syaoran ducked.

"The game is up Skurachan, you have lost" yelled a man pointing a rifle at them, behind him assembled marines with automatic weapons. Another dozen marines came out of the bushes behind them and helicopters appeared out of nowhere, American CIA agents, American marines surfaced from the lake. Sakura was surrounded and outnumber two hundred to one. Sakura and Syaoran went back to back and waited to see what happened next. In the near distance, the sound and heat of cruise missiles impacting on the schools pushed Sakura to the ground.

"Skurachan, now if you do use your magic, we will kill your friends and you, and you know that you don't stand a chance" The man spoke.

"Who are you?" Syaoran yelled

"We are the police of this planet; we are here to stop your kind from ruling the world"

Sakura and Syaoran's anger inflected by accident and activated there sword and staff.

"Skurachan" the man yelled "you made a terrible mistake" the man the yelled "do not kill them, we need them alive.

The men didn't haste, and Shot single rounds around Sakura three hitting her arms and legs and a further two shots directly into the staff, snapping it in two; the staff immediately began to shrink and then collapsed into dust. Sakura dropped and hit the ground. Syaoran yelled and prepared to use fire, two marines shot him five times in the arms.

"ARHHHGG" Syaoran yelled in pain, he dropped to the ground, two men surrounded him, pointed the guns at him, but didn't shoot.

"Syaoran-kun! Sakura-Chan!" Tomoyo yelled. Tomoyo got up. Suddenly she froze expected to die in another hail of bullets, but nobody shot her.

"tomtochn, I wouldn't want you to make the same mistake as Skurachan and her friends, now would you? I know you have no powers; so we could kill you, but we wont" the man yelled to the marines to retrieved Sakura and Syaoran's bodies and were quickly put into a helicopter, Tomoyo waked towards the man and asked,

"What about Eriol-kun?"

The man looked at the body of Eriol and then looked back to Tomoyo "He's trash, the marines will dispose of him"

Tomoyo returned to the body of Eriol, as she turned to Eriol's body over, She saw Eriol's magic key, she undid the chain and took his key and then took his glasses, then Tomoyo kissed her beloved one more time. A marine slapped her away from the body; she was handcuffed as she saw the soldiers throw Eriol's body in the lake at the park. Sakura not realize how much her life would change after that in her darkest hour.

Location: Science wing, CIA Headquarters Langley, United States of America

Date: April 22nd, 2007

Time: 18:45hrs

Sakura woke up, slowly. Her eyes were still fuzzy, she tried to wipe them but she couldn't move her hand to her face. Her eye gained focus and she stared to get an idea of where she was. Her clothes had been removed and were lying on a table wear all of her things were laid out; she was dressed in only a white robe, nothing underneath.

To her left lay Tomoyo still asleep and Syaoran to her right in another white robe with his belongings on the table. Sakura tried to struggle but with no energy. She tried to get an idea were she was. Finally her eyes stopped hurting everything came into clear focus. She was in a room, in was cold. The walls were stainless steal; everything in the room was stainless steal. There were three beds and three tables. Sakura managed to sit up in her bed and look around better, there was one white light above her, Tomoyo and Syaoran. There appeared to be only one door. Sakura felt like she couldn't walk, so she tried to get Syaoran up.

"Syaoran-kun?" Sakura spoke quietly.

Syaoran mumbled and looked for the voice that he heard "Sakura-Chan, are you alive or am I dead?"

"We're alive, I think" she responded half glad.

Syaoran managed to awaken and started to focus his eyes, he then sat up.

"Sakura-Chan, I'm come to you" Syaoran announced.

"Don't, your legs are still weak" Sakura spoke.

Syaoran climbed out of the bed and walk, he stumbled and staggered to the ground, he then crawled towards Sakura's bed.

"My legs are too weak!" Syaoran then climbed up the side to Sakura and climbed on to Sakura's bed and collapsed. Sakura was use to Syaoran's weight on her and didn't mind at all, she felt like everything was being crushed.

"Syaoran-kun, you're crushing me" Sakura whimpered. Sakura normally could withstand his weight, but it felt like he was a ton of bricks.

"Sorry" Syaoran puffed, lacking the energy.

Syaoran then heaved to Sakura's left side and lay down Sakura moved a bit over so Syaoran didn't fall off. Both lay on there backs and looked at only the ceiling.

"What happened to us?" Sakura spoke,

"We were shot in the legs; our bodies might not be able to work them anymore"

"What about Tomoyo" Sakura turned to look at Tomoyo "she looks…"

"She wasn't shot, she is merely asleep"

Tomoyo lay on the bed, she looked like she had been crying for hours, and she slept soundlessly and calmly. You could almost mistake Tomoyo for being dead. Her hair was messy, not normal for Tomoyo to leave it like that, her normally clean body covered with scars and bandages. And her eyes had black tear liners, from the makeup and her crying.

"try wake her up" Syaoran said "we need her awake"

Sakura couldn't speak loud enough. So she climbed out of bed and dropped to the floor. Like Syaoran, she slid her half dead body, across the floor and reached Tomoyo's bed. Sakura climbed up onto her knee's and came face to face with Tomoyo sleeping. From up close, Sakura could hear Tomoyo's nose and mouth breathing very gently, her eyes were still moistened with tears rolling down her cheeks. Sakura gave a light tap on her arm.

Tomoyo moved a bit, and rolled onto her back, Sakura touched her neck, her soft and sometimes thick skin was warm, the nerves vibrated and her pulse could be felt, Sakura tried again to wake Tomoyo up. With success, Tomoyo turned back over towards Sakura and opened her blue eyes.

"Sakura-Chan?" Tomoyo's lips slowly moved, they seemed as they were blocked and stuck, Tomoyo's eye's widened and slowly regained focus.

"Tomoyo-Chan, it's me, Sakura"

Tomoyo still couldn't hear Sakura yet but her face meant more then anything Sakura could say

Tomoyo took some time to wake up, after a while; she helped Sakura back to her bed and went to the table with her evening gown and belongings. Tomoyo stood and approached Sakura again.

"Tomoyo-Chan, do you know where we are?" asked Sakura,

"I don't know, but we were on a plane for a while" Tomoyo responded.

Just as Tomoyo answered the question, a buzzing noise came and went, and then in front of Sakura and her friends, the door opened. In came four air force armed guards and two other person's in high rank. Sakura and Syaoran couldn't stand, and had no magic for them to use.

"General, these are the people we hunted down last night, and brought back here" spoke the other name; a Captain in the air force.

"Good evening Skurachan, Welcome to the CIA Headquarters Langley" Spoke the general.

Sakura and her friends froze.

"I've just wanted to visit you, despite the reputation the media has made of you in the previous twenty four hours."

Syaoran looked and attempted to stand up and fell. All of the guards flinched and pointed the guns at Syaoran.

"Don't shoot" the Captain yelling.

"What happened to our legs" Sakura cried.

"Nothing, you have being given an injection of nerve de-simulates, you will able to walk in a while" the captain spoke to Sakura sternly.

Sakura nodded in acknowledgement; Surprising the General.

"You are very cooperative, that's good for a prisoner"

All three pricked of them pricked there ears hearing that word

"Prisoners? What have we done to harm you?"

"My commanding officers and the CIA made the order for you to captured, as your 'magic' has been considered a threat. The president this morning made full disclosure about you Skurachan" the general explained.

"What! Why!" Sakura spoke.

"Because we know your true powers Skurachan" Spoke a man, known as the integrator entering the room "But we don't know your intentions were for good, but as you proved, they weren't; now…you are going to tell me everything"

"How many people know about my magic?" Sakura asked politely.

"Well, you should see for yourself" the integrator spoke.

Another person rolled in a Television set on a stand and turned it on

"This is CNN; I'm Bruce McKay, coming back to the main story, 'Lie or truth; the mystery of Sakura'. After the pentagon's release of information yesterday of claming to of captured the first known magician known either as Skurachan or Sakura, has become an international headline around the world, mixed reactions from Japan, mainly on the fact that the first attack on Japanese soil since the Second world war in the space of a few hours, American soldiers purposely damaged buildings and captured its people. The illegal act of war on Japan, this news has cause all outrage in China, North and South Korea and in Russia, are intending that this 'act' of capturing a supposed magical being, is being considered as an 'act' for another global conflict; this adds to the increasing threat the American navy have posed; positioning almost two hundred warships within site of the coast in some areas. The president will make a national address tonight, with clam that the Untied States government has video footage shot..."

"I don't believe this" Syaoran commented.

"Well, believe this; at 6pm tonight, one Billion people are going to learn the truth about you. your secret will be broadcast to every single nation in the western world"

Tomoyo and Sakura hold on to each other and watch the television

"…in more news, the Russian president slammed the United States government in causing an international conflict to kidnap three people, including the supposed magic person; Sakura…"

The Captain turned off the Television,

"We will let you eat in two hours, until then, let the nerve tonic where off" the general kindly proposed.

Sakura quickly saw that the general hid a personnel feeling for Sakura and her friends predicament and was helping as much as he could. Sakura nodded in acknowledgement. The General walked out slowly shaking his head, the major promptly ordered the guards to leave the room, leaving only the interrogator. Sakura and Syaoran sat up in there positions, Tomoyo sat next to Sakura and held onto her arm for support.

"Ok, now Skurachan, if you want to see daylight again, you're going answer a few questions in regard to you and your cards" the interrogator spoke,

"Okay" Sakura nodding her head, she didn't see the man harmful. Sakura decided to just say what he wanted to hear.

"Name, age, nationality"

"Sakura, 14, Japan"

Sakura looked at Syaoran and worriedly looked at Syaoran's sign to tell him. The interrogator continued asking basic questions to all three of them; once done, he placed the papers in a folder and instructed a guard to go and deliver the folder to an upstairs office.

"We will tell you" Syaoran and Sakura agreed.

"That's what I wanted to hear" The man spoke, turning on a recorder. Sakura turned to her friend, disgraced by her openness. Tomoyo whispered an apology to Sakura. Syaoran looked disappointed. Sakura closed her eyes and spoke again, confessing everything she knew.

After hours of explaining the real story, the interrogator stood up and looked at his watch.

"Well, its time"

Sakura still shaken looked at the time, 7:30pm. She looked towards Syaoran who was walking around now that the nerve tonic wore off. Tomoyo sat on a bed looking at her. Sakura was quietly spoken for when Syaoran approached the man.

"What time? What's going on?" Syaoran spoke sternly

The interrogator looked at them closely and laughed weirdly,

"We need to get better information for tonight, tonight is the night that the president will admit to the world that you really are"

Sakura and Syaoran's mouth dropped in unison. Tomoyo turned white as she saw the door open again. In walked the general, two CIA agents and two dozen marine units, the marines surrounded the three and stood extremely still. After the group entered, two air force technicians entered the room with a television,

After some tuning they were watching the oval office of the white house filled with generals and media crews. Behind the desk sat a lone president prepared to talk to the nation. He seemed like he was going to enjoy the moment a lot. He waited until a person spoke,

"Mr. President, you're on in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…"

Suddenly the fuzzy reception cleared to even better reception and the president looked into the camera and spoke

"Good evening; in the last twenty hour hours have been extremely intensive across the world; once again your country has proven itself victorious in defending this land from the evil threats from abroad. On the 22nd of April, 2007 the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States marine core conducted and completed the task of arresting terrorists in the empire of Japan. The immediate report of terrorist were to cover for a much more extraordinary plot against the free world; These three people in particular have in been involved in a far greater threat that until now, no political or military power could match. These people go by the names of Sakura, Syaoran, and Tomoyo…"

Sakura and Syaoran stood there with there mouths open and stared at the television. Tomoyo limped towards Sakura and held onto her arm. Sakura instead put her arm over Tomoyo's head and hugged her.

"…these people have magic, no more is there a barrier of protection between the magical and human world, their secret is blown…and now its time for them to pay, these three alone, could have the potential to threaten and destroy the entire democratic world, there want to bring peace to us is not there intention, they are the enemy of the free world and the enemy of the Inited States, they are pure evil…there apart of a wide network of evil, an axis of evil that spreads throughout the entire world, they hide as spies for there secret army, waiting for the day when they can rise and rule this earth…"

"That's a lie!" Sakura shouted to the general in the room,

"I don't even have powers!" Tomoyo spoke,

"…tonight my fellow Americans, we will rise to this threat…will are now of this moment at war with their army. We will unite as one and purge this earth of all those who follow this path of destruction and pure hate for mankind. We will stop at nothing and go where we are needed before we have removed each and every magician, witch, wizard, and sorcerer from this earth, we will use our most powerful weapons to destroy them. Its time for there demise, that demise will begin with Sakura…"

"What!" Syaoran turned to the general. The general was nowhere to be seen, instead approach the guards with there guns pointed, the started to move them to a plane outside. The television coverage continued around the world, in Japan; Chihura, Rita and Naoko watched intensely as they learnt there friends secrets as it unfolded.

"…and to every nation that stands with us, you now have one choice, if you do not support us, you will be eliminated, if you are hiding magic types, you will be destroyed…if you support us, you will be spared, the choice is yours…

As the speech continued, the door to Naoko's house was blown open, in charged marines and CIA operatives, capturing the three girls watching the television. Meanwhile Yamazaki was riding as fast as he could out of town on a motorbike, excited that then he heard that the American fleet had parked off shore. He was almost in the forest when a helicopter gunship flew out of nowhere and fired missiles at him, blowing him off the road and down a hill, to be left for dead. Yamazaki could only look up, a full moon…the last to be covering a peaceful world for a while.

"…I leave you tonight with the hope that god will help us support the pure and democratic humans to distain this earth of magic types and bring forward a new freedom to us all, good night and god bless the United States of America"

As the president concluded, Sakura, Syaoran and Tomoyo were been driven to Langley Airbase, where they would be flown to another facility. As they approached the cargo plane. Sakura watched out towards the night sky. It would be the last time the sky would cover a peaceful world, her moment of concentration was then interrupted as five B-2 bombers taxied onto the runway. Sakura didn't have to imagine what they were going to do.

Sakura wanted to cry but couldn't, one move and she would be shot at, instead she looked towards a air force commander and asked,

"Where are you taking us?"

"To your home…" the major responded

Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other in confusion before the major filled her in,

"…the president authorized the invasion of Japan one hour before the speech; the country is now under American control, your hometown will become your base of operations for this new war, we are removing the people and destroying the northern side to create an airbase and prison for only you and your friends in Japan and here"

Sakura went to hug Syaoran, but was thrown back by a marine

"Forget it Sakura, you've already lost this war"