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Chapter 14 – Syaoran

What in Clow’s name are those two thinking? They should know trolls aren’t anything to play around with! Time to bail them out again…

Well, Harry’s out, Ron’s too busy running and screaming, so I guess it’s safe enough to use my non-wizard powers.

“Freeze!”

The troll turns into a solid block of ice. I smile and tuck the newly created Freeze card into my robe. Yue was right; this proves I’m Clow’s son after all, even though I may dislike it.

He stayed with me. I don’t know why he turned into a bunny though. It’s less suspicious than a giant winged angel, but still…

Bunnies are cute. Yue does not fall under the ‘cute’ category. However, I guess it makes sense, if Clow has a daughter, Sakura, and a son, me, that we’d each get a guardian… or something like that.

Wait.

Doesn’t that mean I’m related to Touya too? Okay, bad thought there…

I guess I can deal with it though. No use to panic. I feel kind of faint, not as bad as when I created the Wood and Watery cards a few days ago, but still…

Yue is right. It’s dangerous here at Hogwarts, and not only because the wizards have found out I was Clow’s son… okay, more like Clow’s reincarnation’s son, but still! What’s odder is that Sakura’s father is Clow’s other reincarnation. I didn’t know you could reincarnate into 2 different people, but I’m blabbering now. Nonetheless, I’m still related to Sakura who is in love with Tomoyo so it changes nothing!

Eriol told them – the wizards. He’s my father, even though I’ll never call him that! But in any case, it’s time to rest…

I let the magic of Sleep consume me, and hey, now they won’t question me. Apparently I am a wizard, as much as it scares me, but at the same time, I’m a magician… but luckily, he didn’t say that.

All he said was that Clow Reed was a powerful wizard some years ago, and that I’m his son. That’s all.

Now, though, all the teachers seem scared of me. It’s not fair! I didn’t want them to know! I’m not even through thinking about it myself!

But first… some rest…

The next thing I know is that I wake up in the hospital wing a few hours later.

“You’re awake,” Pomfrey says, as she gives me what looks to be a healing potion. I nod as I sip it. Yuck! Disgusting…

“What happened?”

“I think you managed to knock the troll out, but fainted afterwards….” She deposits my bag on the bed, and sure enough, Yue the bunny is peeking out of the top.

< You fooled them well. >

< Arigato. >

So the connection exists because I’m Clow’s son. Thanks a lot, Eriol. Sakura’s doing fine in Tomoeda, changing cards slowly. She hasn’t been told yet, neither has Cerberus, but she’ll be fine.

After all, she’s Clow’s daughter. She can defeat Eriol. I have faith in her still.

Do I still love her?

I’m not sure. Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but it’s easier to forget I love her when I’m far, far away…

I see Hermione Granger in the next bed. My, she seems to have broken an arm at least. Pity… no, not really pity.

It shows how book knowledge alone cannot save you.

Pomfrey fusses over me a bit more, but then she lets me go. I’m glad it’s late at night now, no one is here to see…

Maybe I’ll change Fly next. I would like that, to be able to fly with Yue…

What am I thinking? Yue would never go flying for fun. He’s much too serious!

Still, one can dream, right?

Back in the common room, Harry and Ron are playing gobstones. I give a wave, which they return.

“You okay, Yuki?”

“I’m fine now.”

“That’s great.” Ron’s grinning like his face is on fire. “Guess what? McGonagall gave us ten points each for defeating the troll! So that’s twenty house points! Pretty good, right?” He grins infectiously, but I’m not the smiling type.

Harry notices my silence, but doesn’t comment. He’s used to it now.

It seems like there is no information on Clow Reed anywhere in the library, but that’s fine now, because once I create Return and maybe a few other cards Yue and I can see for us how the truth in the past really was.

Nothing interesting else happens – sure, Hermione shuts up for a few weeks, which is nice, but soon, she’s back to the ‘breathing down your neck’ mode. And it’s my neck she’s breathing down in potions! T\at is so annoying…

I have to admit that I finally lost control after class one day. Of course, maybe it wasn’t entirely my fault but…

“Yuki!”

“Don’t call me Yuki! Only my friends can call me that.” I think that startled her.

“Aren’t I your friend?”

“You mean because I rescued you from the troll? Iie.”

“E- eh?”

“Never mind.” I didn’t want to waste time talking to her.

“But Yuki! We could work on our potions essay together-!” She starts babbling and I’m walking towards the library as fast as I can but she’s still talking and it’s driving me crazy and then I – I use Silent.

I didn’t mean to.

Still, the card drifts into my hands and I can feel Yue’s smile.

Well, at least I can keep control now, hai? I hope…

After that, it was pretty easy. I created Dream one night in a dream, although I think that was Eriol’s influence.

Why can’t he leave me alone?

I just realized something. These are all Yue’s cards… they’re all still moon-based cards, no matter what. Perhaps I am closer to the moon, and Sakura to the sun. it would explain why she has Cerberus and Yue is staying with me. Is this Clow’s permanent arrangement?

Poor Yue. Being forced to say as a bunny… why not a cat or a snake though, I can imagine him as those…

Hmm?

Well, this is interesting. Malfoy’s just challenged Harry to a duel. I know he’s still sore that Gryffindor beat Slytherin, but…

Maybe this time he won’t flee like the coward he is?

I’ll go along to keep an eye out… just in case.

It’s getting quite cold here in the winter. Winter will bring snow, though, so… maybe some of the weather cards?

Yue nods his approval as I smile and visualize Snow…

End Chapter

Completed 1/25/05