Messiah of the Century Legend
A CCS Fanfiction
Part IV
Part IV – Walking the predetermined path…
"So… the power has been awakened… I have seen it in action…"
Someone's looking at Kaede at that moment. He looks with fear, he just saw the mighty power the Alastor. He thinks at this moment.
"So… Clow Reed's chosen have come… He will try to destroy the dream that the earth wanted to happen. I can't allow this to continue… but at this point my power is not at its full potential and fighting him is foolhardy. I must plan about this."
Just then… Kaede felt his presence.
"Who's there?" Kaede fired a beam of energy.
The man caught off guard at Kaede's attack. He was able to avoid the direct force of the blast, but the explosion caught his robe and was disintegrated at an instant. He jumped off to the next building.
"So… you're the one who holds the power of Alastor… and as I see the battle, I wasn't disappointed."
"Who are you and why are you watching this?"
"Don't get me wrong. I'm here to watch your battle and see you fight for the first time. I see that your power is truly wonderful. I'm glad for that."
"Are you the one who tricked me and send these monsters?"
"I am. To see that Clow Reed didn't pass the power to someone not worthy, now I believe that you are real and you're the one Clow Reed hoped to stop the dream."
"What dream? What is this you're talking about?"
"You'll find out soon enough. But let me tell you this, failing to fulfill the promise of the earth will bring forth total destruction of all living things!" He disappeared.
"Wait! I'm not finished yet!"
But then, Kaede feels something strange…
"Huh? What's this? It seems that I'm weakening…"
He tries to walk, but he can only manage a few steps.
"Why… is… this…?" He fell to the ground.
Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol went to the scene.
"Huh? The energy is gone!" Eriol said.
"What? But how?" Tomoyo asked.
Sakura looked around, and saw Kaede unconscious.
"Kaede-kun!" Sakura hurried toward him.
"Oh my… he's hurt!" Tomoyo gasped.
"Kaede-kun! Kaede-kun!" Sakura said.
He regained consciousness, but still weary.
"Huh? What happened here? Sakura-chan?"
"Yes, I'm here. What happened to you?"
"I don't know… The moment I woke up I was here."
"That's strange…" Eriol noticed something.
"What's that luminous energy I felt? It can't be those monsters, they're black elements. And about him? Is there any connection?"
"Eriol-kun… What's wrong?" Tomoyo looked at him.
"Oh, sorry. Just thinking of something."
"We better get you to your house." Sakura said.
"Yeah…" Kaede replied.
The group went to his house after a long day.
"Well, this is it." Kaede said.
"Wow! Your house is just blocks away from our house!" Sakura said.
"Really?"
"Yeah! If you want tomorrow, I can pick you up from here for school!"
"Sure! I'm still have a hard time going around here."
"Okay! See you then!"
"Thanks for helping me there."
"That's okay, besides, we love meeting new friends, right?" Tomoyo said.
"Yeah, from now on, you can count on us!" Eriol added.
"Thanks guys. See you tomorrow!" Kaede went inside.
"Sakura-chan, isn't he cute?" Tomoyo looked at her.
"Well, umm…" Sakura's face turned red.
"C’mon, he’s cute right?”
“Even you try to make her answer that, she won’t say anything.” Eriol said.
“Eriol-kun, it’s not like that…” Sakura blushed even more.
“Well, I think Li is only in Sakura’s mind after all. Let’s go.” Eriol said.
“Okay…” Tomoyo said.
“Oh! I gotta go home now!” Sakura said.
“I thought you would forget going home.” Eriol said.
Tomoyo laughed, and Sakura even blushed more.
“Well, I’ll make her say that! Just look and see! Bye Sakura-chan!” Tomoyo and Eriol left.
As they leave, Sakura looked at Kaede’s house and is wondering on something.
“Kaede-kun… It seems that I know him a long time ago.” Sakura went home.
Kaede went up to his room, having a good rest after what happened on a very weird day.
“So many things happened today. Meeting new friends, A new school life, fighting a monster using powers…”
He thought about that battle more and what Alastor said to him.
“I have the capability to change the inevitable fate, I wonder if it is true…”
“ONI-CHAN!!!” Saemi entered the door.
“Oh boy…” Kaede thought.
“Hmm… why are looking pale today? Did something to you?” She looked worried.
“Don’t worry, I’m okay. I’m just tired that’s all.”
“Okay, Oka-san is already preparing for dinner, better eat okay?”
“Sure…”
Saemi went downstairs.
Still thinking about the incident, Kaede thought about the dream…
“That dream I got, that girl… is she the same one that I saw?”
--== Sakura’s House ==--
“Time to sleep!”
After a long day, Sakura is ready to sleep. She’s finished in her chores that Touya dragged her to it. At least Yukito helped out. She’s getting ready for the next day, which is going to be more than ordinary. The first is having a new classmate, Kaede, and the strange things that are happening in Tomoeda. She’s still thinking about those things.
“Kero-chan, the trials of the cards are finished, how come there are still strange things happening?”
“I’m not sure even for myself… but I somehow sense traces of Clow magic…” Kero said.
“That can’t be true! We are the only ones who can do such magic! Don’t tell me someone else can do that!”
“It’s not that I am saying it but… if it is true then…”
“Then what?”
“Clow Reed’s dark prophecy will come true…”
-= Meanwhile =-
“Today is our experiment, isn’t it?” Ryuga said.
“I like to play with them for a while…”
“But master… Sakura and others have full possession of the Clow Cards…” A robed man said.
“Don’t worry, I’m ready to battle them, even they have all the cards, fate already has chosen me to be the new master of the cards.”
“But how would you do that?”
“Just watch what will happen…”
-= Kaede’s House =-
After eating, Kaede went up to his room and went to bed. He still needs rest after a long day. Now he prepares himself for the new day that is awaiting him.
“What a day… I bet tomorrow will be everything but ordinary…”
He went to sleep.
-= Back at Sakura’s House =
Sakura now sleeps for the new day waiting, but she still is thinking about what Kero said about Clow Reed’s dark prophecy. She doesn’t know that he would predict such a thing.
-= Flashback =-
“What do you mean by the dark prophecy?” Sakura asked.
“I only heard from him about this only once when he lived, but only once.” Kero answered.
“Then… you didn’t know about that?”
“Sorry, but I don’t know anything, he just said if a change will happen in the future, everything will be lost… but he said it was merely a myth…”
“So… he’s not saying that it may come true?”
“I think so, he’s just bluffing or joking… so don’t worry a single thing about it, all weird events are finished now that you are the successor of the cards.”
“Hmm…”
“Just go to sleep, and forget what I said.” Kero fell asleep.
-= End of Flashback =-
“Maybe I should stop worrying about that.”
Sakura cuddled up on her sheets, and went to sleep.
However, her peaceful was quickly interrupted.
“Sakura… Sakura… Help me… Please help me…” A voice is heard.
“What? Who? Huh? What is that voice I’m hearing?”
“Help me… with your power you can free me from suffering…”
“How can I help?”
“Go to Penguin Park… Someone will be waiting…”
“Ok, I’ll try to help…”
“Please… hurry!”
The voice fades.
“Hey? What did I hear? It’s not from you right?” Kero woke up.
“Right… that person needs help. And I’m going to help.”
“Wait! We don’t know who told that voice and who knows what will be waiting for you there. You can’t go, it’s dangerous!”
“Even so, I still have to help!” Sakura dresses up.
Kero thought that it will be useless to stop her. So, he went along.
“If that’s what you want then so be it. I’m going too.” Kero said.
“Kero-chan… okay!” Sakura replied.
“What can I do for this girl? At least she wants to help…” Kero thought.
“Let’s go!”
Sakura and Kero carefully moved out of the house and into the road. There they sensed an energy source.
“I sensed something… it’s dark energy.” Kero said.
“I sense it too. How come there’s such energy here?” Sakura asked.
“I’m not sure about this…”
“I’d better call Syaoran, Eriol-kun and Tomoyo-chan just in case.”
As they go to Penguin Park, Sakura used her cellphone to call Li, Eriol and Tomoyo.
-= Meanwhile =-
“They are coming…”
“Your predictions are indeed correct master.” A robed man said.
“Hmm… you’re not as weak as I thought!” Ryuga said.
“I tend to keep myself, so I can never be traced. The preparations are complete, now let’s wait for our guests…”
-= Back at the Scene =-
“I thought I felt something weird the past few minutes…” Eriol said.
The group met up a block away from Penguin Park, they plan on what to do. They set up their battle form.
“So what’s our plan?” Tomoyo asked.
“Sakura said that someone needs help, we better be careful.” Li said.
“I hope that person is okay…” Sakura said.
“Don’t worry, we’ll get that person out in no time!” Li answered.
“Syaoran…”
“Okay, ready? Go!”
They rushed toward the park when monsters come out of nowhere.
“What the…” Eriol said.
“They’re waiting for us!” Li said.
“Oh no, we can’t go further…” Tomoyo said.
The monsters soon circled them, getting ready to attack.
“We have no choice but to slug it out.” Eriol suggested.
“We can handle this, right guys?” Sakura asked.
“As long as we’re together, we’re unstoppable.” Li answered.
“Ok then, let’s raise hell!!!”
The monsters start their attack.
“Now!”
Sakura unveiled the key…
“Key that uses the power of the stars, Appear before me in your true form. Sakura, the one with the contract with you, Commands it…”
“RELEASE!”
The key turns to a rod, and energy flowed out of it. Dissipating monsters near it.
“Wow, the energy contained in the rod is incredible!” Tomoyo starts recording the action.
Eriol unveiled the key…
“Key that contains the power of darkness, Reveal your true form to me. By our contract, I Eriol command you…”
“RELEASE!”
Dark energy flowed out and the key turned to a rod.
“Now we’re ready! Let’s destroy these monsters!” Eriol said.
“Syaoran?” Sakura looked at Li.
“Li-kun?” Tomoyo looked at them.
Li closed his eyes and started chanting, soon dakr energy is forming inside him and flows to every part of his body.
“Gods of all elements, give your everlasting power to the new successor! I, Li Syoaran shall purge all evil out of the world, and protect the sanctity of the earth, in which all living things live in harmony!”
Powerful energy flowed out of Li’s body and disintegrated most of the monsters from impact. Li opened his eyes and looked at his friends, whose amazement is seen in their eyes.
“Wow! That’s incredible! How did you learn that?” Sakura is amazed at what she saw.
“I just happen to learn a few new tricks on my sleeve.” Li answered.
“Wow, Li-kun, you’ve changed in battle. Maybe I should make new costumes for you if you like…” Tomoyo said.
“Let’s not get to that part…”
But Eriol became a bit suspicious on what he saw. “Wait a minute… how could he do that? There’s no way a member of the Li family could do that, not even Clow Reed could do such a thing. Where did he learn that?”
The remaining monsters now eyed their aim towards them.
“This is it… Ready?” Eriol said.
“Okay, let’s go!” Li and friends jumped into action.
-= Kaede’s House =-
“Wow… the place is so peaceful…”
Kaede is walking around a flower field. The air is fresh, butterflies flying everywhere, the scent of the flower blooms up into the sky. Everything is perfect, simply perfect.
“I wish things will still stay this way…”
“It will be. If the fate of the planet is stopped…”
“What?” Kaede looked around.
“Sorry to intrude on your peace… I was just walking around…Care to join?”
“Sure…”
The person is Clow Reed, but he won’t tell him yet, till the time is right.
The two walked around telling things that are good, life in the earth and things that harms the very existence of the planet. Kaede thought about asking the dream he got back then…
“Hey… I have a dream, it really frightens me… the world coming to an end, people dying… I wonder if it just a dream. I hope it’s not something we are out of reach…” Kaede said.
Clow Reed answered…
“Your dream? Somehow, you are learning quick…”
“What was that?”
“It’s your destiny… life here follows a predetermined path… and no one has control to either change or stop it… but you can…”
Kaede was shocked at what he heard.
“You know, that’s the same thing my spirit, Alastor said…”
“Then you are the one…”
“It said to me the same… but how I hold the key to change fate? It’s true that now I can cast powers beyond my imagination but changing the planned fate is way out for me…”
“It’s true… you hold it. But the time to use it is not now… you still have to learn a lot of things, that includes getting the real you back…”
“That’s the same thing it told me… I was someone, and someone took me away from it…”
“Do not worry, there is still time. Your friends will help you in every step of the way… You must unleash the legacy inside…”
“That’s easy to say…”
Suddenly, Kaede feels pain in his chest…
“What’s this? Why is that I’m hurting…”
“They need your help…”
“What?”
“Wake up, and you will know what it means…”
“So it’s a dream after all…”
“Go now, and help them… you have Alastor in your possession now…”
“Right… thank you…”
"Don’t thank me, I’m just saying what is best…”
The two disappeared.
Kaede woke up from the dream, and felt something is happening.
"Oh no! Someone’s in trouble! I need to help!”
End of Part IV
Now were getting into something…