Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ Night's Heart ❯ A Night Ride ( Chapter 12 )

ForeverDestiny: Gomen for the long wait, all. I would have written sooner but for two reasons: 1) I had my birthday last weekend and I am now 15! And 2) I had to read Wuthering Heights by Friday (which I hadn't done so shh!!) which is the most depressing book on the planet! Normally (at least this year) I am a very happy-go-lucky person but a chapter of WH and I want to curl up in a ball and cry my eyes out! I hate this! So, to cheer myself up (and to not do my algebra yet), Chapter 12 of Night's Heart!

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Night's Heart

Chapter 12

A Night Ride

Naoko, cowering behind Tatsumi/Jeremy, let out a sudden shriek which echoed through the corridor, alerting Jeremy to her fear. With a laugh, he crouched down and pulled her up by the arm, showing her the true brilliance of the surrounding room. Amazed, Naoko gaped. It was beautiful. The funny thing was that the light seemed to shine not from any object in the room, but the two of them.

"W-W-What's going on?" Naoko managed to gasp. Jeremy laughed.

"There are some things I must tell you now, Naoko-chan."

Naoko nodded mutely, only subconsciously noticing the change from `san' to `chan'.

"First of all, my name is not Tatsumi. You can call me Jeremy."

Naoko nodded, surprisingly not surprised.

"Also, I'm not human. I'm an Orithi."

This brought Naoko back to her senses. Being Sakura's lady-in-waiting, she knew all about Syaoran and how he had supposedly killed Sir Yuki. Although she didn't particularly believe that Prince Syaoran was responsible, she did know that Orithi were dangerous beings. She jumped a little and took a step back. Sensing her unease, Jeremy decided to be a little more careful.

"I know what your thinking. You're Sakura-hime's lady-in-waiting, are you not? So you are afraid of me because you know of Syaoran. I will not lie to you, Syaoran is my friend. We've been friends since we were small children. We are slightly different though. Syaoran is Mock Orithi, while I am just Orithi. I have been Orithi since birth, an Orithi of Light."

This calmed Naoko for no reason she knew. He just……made her feel better. Comforted. But that was silly. She didn't know what she was thinking.

"What does all this have to do with me?"

Jeremy smiled.

"All an Orithi's life, he or she searches. Once found, the Orithi is happy and will be more powerful and content for the rest of their life. The thing an Orithi searches for is their Familiar."

"You mean, like witches have cats as familiars, that kind of familiar?"

"Yes and no. Orithi Familiars are both companions and…something else. You see, Orithi have human Familiars. The Familiar, like an animal familiar, stays with them and helps them, but is also their soul mate. Naoko-chan, that light just proved it. Only one's Familiar can undo that clasp. You, Naoko, are my Familiar."

~***~

"Kyoko-hime?"

Kyoko stuck her head out the door to the smiling face of Lord Eriol.

"What do you want?"

"I have a gift for you and Chris. If you would follow me?"

With that he started to walk away. Kyoko followed, trailed by Chris, who had heard the whole thing. Eriol led them to the stables. Finally, he stopped in front of two stalls.

"A gift for Kyoko-hime and Chris Godai. Two horses. Please take a night ride, for this was the point of the gift. Signed, Anonymous."

In the stalls, two horses stared at their new owners. One, white with black splotches and steely gray eyes, stared at his rider, Chris. The other, brown with brown eyes, stared at Kyoko, almost as if sizing up her new rider. She had a small stone around her horse neck. No one noticed Eriol leave.

Kyoko looked at Chris.

"Should we?"

"I don't see why not."

"What is that around my horses neck?"

"I don't sense any bad magic about it. I wouldn't worry."

"All right."

And so they saddled the horses up and followed their givers advice for a ride. It was the perfect opportunity to discuss their evil plans. And neither noticed their horses ears pick up.

~***~

"You really should meet him, Sakura. He'd cheer you up!"

"That's kind of you, Naoko, but I really don't feel like meeting this mystery man of yours."

The argument had been going for a few minutes in Sakura's bedchambers. Naoko had been trying to get Sakura to meet Jeremy but Sakura had been so depressed since the sentencing that she hadn't done anything but lay around. Naoko was sure she could remedy that.

"You really should, Sakura."

"Tomoyo, not you too."

"Yes, me too. I really think you should get up and about. Everyone's worried about you."

"There's something I haven't told you about him, Princess."

"What's that, Naoko?"

The story spilled out about him being an Orithi and her soul mate but the thing that got Sakura to agree to meet him was the fact that he was an old friend of Syaoran's.

~***~

Two hours later, Sakura retired to her bedchambers, much happier after meeting this mysterious Jeremy. And as she stared into the night, for the first time in the past while, she felt hope.

To Be Continued….

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