Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ Return of the forgotten ❯ Turn ( Chapter 7 )

7. Turn

Yue's POV:

"Wake up, my love, wake up.", a voice whispered into my ear. Slowly, I regained my consciousness. I opened my eyes and found myself within almost total darkness. Where was I? What had happened? The image of that woman appeared in my mind. She must have taken me here. I could feel her presence nearby. I turned around and saw her standing a few inches away from me, smiling.

"Ah, finally.", she said and approached me, "You finally woke up, my love."

She leaned forward and kissed me all of a sudden. I couldn't even think of avoiding this. Her kiss was deep and longing, but to me, it was like hot lava flowed down my throat. But something about that kiss felt so…familiar, so well-known to me. I closed my eyes, seeing a scene similar to this. I had been kissed by her before, a long, long while ago. I slowly began to remember everything. The river of memory flushed down on me like the heavy rain of a summer night's thunderstorm (AN: Now that sounded poetic, didn't it?). I remembered her now. My first love, but also my first enemy. I remembered her suddenly being evil and trying to kill me.

Finally, she broke off the kiss, taking a step back and smiled at me. Her name echoed in my mind.

"Vaine.", I said.

She chuckled, seeming amused by the fact I finally remembered her.

"Yes, my love, it is me.", she then said.

I looked at her and said:

"So this has become of you."

"I didn't change very much during the time, my love.", she answered, "But you, my love, you seem to have changed. Your heart seems to have changed. It seems that you don't love me anymore, but someone else."

"I already stopped loving you as you turned to the evil side.", I replied, "And then you were no longer there, which I didn't pity much back then. I never imagined that you would return, so it is just natural that I found love in someone else."

"And what is more,", she said, "you just forgot about me, about everything that had been between us. That is really sad, really sad, my love. Because I never forgot about you."

"So will you try to drag me on your side again?", I asked with a bit of disgust in my voice.

"I am just showing you the opportunities, my love.", she answered.

"No matter what you do, I will never serve the forces of evil.", I said.

"Wait and see, my love,", she replied, "wait and see."

I tried to move, but found that she had immobilized me again.

"Don't try to run away, my love.", she spoke, "I won't let you leave."

"You are mad, Vaine.", I shouted in her face. But she just smiled.

"Do you really think so, my love?", she asked and moved closer, so that she could place on of her hands on my cheeks, " Do you really think someone who has gone mad would have made it out of the darkness? The darkness I had to spend almost an eternity in. How can you know, my love? How can you know how I felt being enclosed and isolated for such a long time? But the time and solemnity also helped me get even stronger than before. And now, finally, I have found my way out of my prison. And now, nobody will be able to stop me. Nobody!"

"Do you really believe that?", I asked her.

"Yes.", she replied, "Who could prove me wrong? Your old master is dead and that girl, hmhm, well, she is a young girl, how could she ever have a chance against me?"

"Sakura is much stronger than you think.", I replied. She started laughing loudly.

"You love her, don't you?", she asked me.

"Yes, and I am happy about that.", I answered.

"You SAY you are happy, but are you really happy?", she said, "Don't you just betray yourself to forget your real concerns? Tell me, my love, did you never wonder what would be in the future, when your beloved one won't be there anymore, dead like your old master? You didn't, am I right, my love? You fled into some emotions just to stop the voice in the back of your mind echoing all the time. She is just a human, remember that, my love. Some day, she will pass away like everybody else and leave you alone. What will you do then? Will you really let yourself being left all alone forever and all eternity? Think about it, my love."

"Are you finished now?", I asked, trying to sound a bit sarcastic.

"For now I am, my love.", She answered, "But I will surely talk to you again soon. Until then, I will leave you here." With that, she disappeared into the darkness surrounding me from all sides. I remained where I was. I had no other opportunity, I couldn't move. While she had spoken, I tried my best to ignore her silly words. But yet, I could hear her voice echoing in the back of my mind. I couldn't stop it and I started thinking if this was also a part of whatever she had planned to do. I closed my eyes, trying to concentrate. But no matter how hard I tried, the words she had spoken wouldn't stop repeating themselves again and again. Soon, they mixed up with some of my own thoughts, which I thought had been banished from my mind a long time ago. Yes, I had dark thoughts in the past. I really thought they had been chased away like ghosts and had been replaced by happier thoughts. But in reality, they had remained in a dark, distant corner of my mind, just waiting for the right moment to come up again and claim myself. This seemed to have been the right moment. My inner image of a happy world slowly began to shatter. I began to realize that, no matter how happy it had been, it would impossibly last forever. Even if I had found some happiness now, it would all be over as soon as Sakura would pass away. And then, I would be left alone again, like I had been left alone before. Everything that made me happy was meant to cease to exist only for a way too short period of time. What were a few years compared to my eternal existence? The darkness I had kept deep inside of me for so long slowly took over myself. I let it happen. I didn't want to resist any longer.

I don't know how much time I had spend like that, letting myself being enclosed by darkness. The next thing I realized after a long, silent while was that I felt Vaine's presence coming near again. She stepped out of the blackness and smiled at me.

"How are you, my love?", she asked.

"Why are you asking?", I replied coldly.

"You are making me shiver, my love.", She said, "But I like that. I like that a lot. And I like you. I love you. Don't you think you could also love me? Like you loved me long ago? I ask you, my love, aren't you willing to take the place at my side I offer you? Think about it, my love. I am immortal as long as my power exists. And my power will never ever cease to exist, because nothing and nobody will ever be powerful enough to destroy it. I would never leave you. We would be together for all eternity. Which opportunity will you choose, my love? Will you still stay on your old way and let yourself be left alone and miserable for the rest of eternity or will you stay with me and live in prosperity forever?"

"I…", my mind was so confused, I couldn't find words.

"I can feel that you don't want to live in misery anymore.", she said and held my face within her hands, "Yue, my love, take the place at my side, you won't regret it."

I stared back at her and my mind drifted away. It felt like she was hypnotizing me. The last light inside of me dimmed away and couldn't resist the darkness anymore. I didn't WANT to resist. And so, I let Vaine's dark power take control over myself.

"Yes.", I whispered.

"Will you be mine, now and forever?", she asked.

"Yes.", I answered, "I will be yours, now and forever."

AN: So that's how Yue turned to the evil side. What do you think?