Another chapter! I hope this bunny doesn’t die mid-fic!

Disclaimer/Notes: See earlier chapter

Chapter 6 – Syaoran

I cannot believe this. The fates must be laughing at me. No sooner have I lost my moon magic, and then I get a letter to a wizard’s school.

How can I learn magic if I’ve lost all mine?

So Harry is a wizard, and a famous one at that. Interesting. But since he’s distracted now, I’ll have to leave and talk to Yue.

He might know what to do.

This is a large train, so I wonder why it only has two bathrooms. Oh well. I go inside the boy’s room and close the door, before I check my watch.

It must be around night in Japan right now, but I hope Yukito’s at home…and I switch to Japanese. “Yue?”

A few seconds pass, and I hear his voice. “Clow’s descendent.”

I wish he wouldn’t call me that. It makes me kind of uncomfortable. I do have a name! But I have to talk to him.

“Yue, has anything happened in Tomoeda?”

“Not since the teddy bear, why?”

“Today in England I got a letter to go to a magic school. A wizards school.”

There’s silence. It’s a long silence.

“Yue?”

“You aren’t a wizard, you’re a magician!” He almost sounds panicked.

“I’m not a magician anymore, Yue. I don’t have any more magic.”

He seems to be considering this, before he replies. “Yes. I forgot… then be careful. There must be a reason you are going to a magic school.”

“Will my family be able to find me here?”

“Wizards steal magic from the earth, yes, *steal*. That’s dangerous. Magicians draw it from nature or create their own. I think the wizards think you are a wizard

Like them, as you have an aura of sorts, but you have lost your moon magic.”

“But I-!”

“This is fate, Clow’s descendent. I think it has fate that has called you to England. Be careful.”

“You’ll take care of Sakura in my absence?”

“Hai, of course I will, as her guardian. But take care of yourself.”

I nod to myself as his presence vanishes.

I leave the bathroom and head back to our compartment. On the way, a boy with a round face stops me.

“Did you see a toad anywhere?”

“No.” I answer honestly, and he goes into another compartment to ask. A toad? I might have been able to locate it with my compass in the past, but now…

I haven’t touched my compass or sword since I sealed my magic. I’m afraid to see what might happen.

I miss my sword…

So on impulse, I summon it, and before my eyes, the sword changes… it turns into this stick. Wand, I guess. All the wizards have them according to Ron.

It’s about a foot long, silvery. Interesting.

Well, now I have my wand…

I walk back to the compartment and Harry and Ron are busy eating candy. Harry tells me to help myself, so I try the food. It’s not too odd…

I don’t want to be here. I want to go home. But maybe… maybe I’ll find something to do with Clow in the library there?

I have to hope for the best.

Maybe my aura will change if I learn wizard’s magic. It sounds unpleasant though. Why would you want to steal magic from the earth?

I suppose that if you can’t absorb it normally from the moon or something like that… but then it’s just selfish wanting magic like that.

I really want to go home, but I can’t.

I miss Sakura. I miss Tomoeda. I even miss arguing with Kero-chan. All those fun times are over now, though.

I might even miss Yue! How odd.

We’re getting closer to Hogwarts. A girl just came in our compartment. Harry and Ron don’t look too happy to see her. She says to change.

I don’t like these robes. They’re ugly, compared to the ones I wore at home, but I guess I can’t look too distinctive… black reminds me too much of things left unsaid.

White or green would have been preferable though.

It’s getting colder…

I almost wish I hadn’t given Yue my magic so I wouldn’t have to deal with all this, but what can I do?

I’ve got a fully paid scholarship to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. I’m stuck on the train.

Is there a way to escape? If so, it’s not here yet. Besides, I don’t have any magic! Maybe they’ll kick me out if I fail the classes?

I hope so…

Wait! What am I thinking? Just because the Final Judgment is over and the Clow Cards are gone does not mean I am a failure.

No. I won’t believe that.

Maybe this is my second chance then…

Wow.

That’s one fancy castle…

I guess the wizards waste all their petty magics on this. At least it’s pretty. The water was cold though; I got splashed while we were leaving the boats.

Still, I can do this. I have to take this chance…

Being dive-bombed by a laughing ghost did wonders for my nerves, I can tell you that… the Professor shooed him off though.

The food was inviting-looking. But something came worse… something…

It was… the hat.

I don’t want it to look inside my mind, but I don’t’ have a choice here! What if it finds out? I… I don’t want anyone to know certain things about my family… Oh, this is such an invasion of privacy. What if it finds out I’m really not a wizard?

“Li, Yuki!”

Here we go…

May the moon protect me!

“Now where should I put you? You’re smart, certainly, and – oh, look, you’ve done magic before! Maybe I ought to put you in Ravenclaw. But you’re hiding so many secrets, so Slytherin might be better…”

Slytherin? It didn’t sound familiar.

Then he remembered something… Ron said all the ones who came out of Slytherin were dark wizards?

As in demon summoning or necromancers or maybe just crazed, power-hungry wizards = dark wizards?

He didn’t want that!

Not Slytherin!

“Not Slytherin? Pity. Then I’ll put you in Gryffindor!”

I hope that’s the right place…

End Chapter

Completed 1/23/05

Apologies for OOCness again…