#i know syaoran is just trying to cautiously figure out how much she knows about them

[mokocharm]

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This page is so funny to me for some reason. None of these dorks use their real names, not even with each other. Welcome to our cryptic noodle tea party, where the tension is real and the names don't matter.

I'd rate this brunch atmosphere 5 feathers out of 1 Sakura

[wishuponasakuracard]

SyaoSaku Week 07.27 ✿ 美女桜 | Bijozakura (Verbena): Cooperative - New Trials Edition

The New Trials of Cardcaptor Sakura by Wish-chan Rating: K+ Summary: Set two years after CCS, this is a fanfic started in Fall 1999 and continues the adventures of the gang against Dark Ones. As S&S seal new forces, they learn secrets about of their parents’ past and strive to understand the future.

Arc 1, Chapter 16: Running Out of Time - Airport Adventures (snipper under the cut)

Art by Wish-chan [x]

Warily, she swerved around.

From the shadows of the furnace room emerged a figure.

“Who is it?” Sakura demanded. Could it be…

“Don’t jump. It’s me.” Syaoran said, locking the door. “They’ll come chasing soon. The airport’s havoc right now. Did you find it?”

Nodding Sakura showed the box. Inside, there was an explosive with a timer attached to it. 6 minutes left.

There was a note attached to it with the black skeleton mask in the bottom right hand corner.

So, you’ve actually found the bomb, have you? Didn’t expect you’d get this far. Well, well, it’s just the beginning. Read the following instructions and decipher the code to figure out how to turn the timer on the bomb off. It will go off at exactly 11:20, 5 minutes from now. Just a nice little warning; make a wrong move, and the bomb goes off anyway… ha ha…   Very funny. Hastily, Syaoran grabbed the paper with the instructions to turn off the timer. In dismay, Sakura stared at the hopeless garble of numbers and words. Without wasting a moment, Syaoran swept out a piece of paper and a pen and started scribbling notes and equations. Observing the structure of the bomb, he dislocated one of the complex twisting of wire in it. He stared at the instructions and mumbled to himself, I134… Desperately, he peered at the tiny labels of the wires of different colors and size, entwining with each other, connecting the bomb to the timer.

4 minutes left…

Snatching away the bomb, Sakura said, “Here, I’ll do the circuit dislocation. You decipher the code.” When she found the wire I134, she snapped it off the explosive system. “Can’t we just break all of the wire?”

“Are you crazy? One false move, and the whole bomb would explode. We have to do it in the order.” Tick tock. Tick tock… The seconds ticked away quicker than ever. Syaoran’s voice wavered as cool sweat formed on his brows. “A28, M38, W1933.”

With shaking fingers, Sakura dislocated the following wire lines. To her horror, it seemed as if hundreds of wires still remained. Yet, she knew better than to tell Syaoran to hurry. He was already trying his best.

“A202, T423, C97, H3209, I390, N423, G902.” Sakura nodded and searched for the wires.

3 minutes…

“We’re running out of time.” Sakura stared at the mass of dislocated wires.

“Wait. These last few ones don’t make much sense.”

“What’ll happen if we don’t finish in time?”

“Don’t even think about it.” Syaoran crossed out something and then circled his result. “Y822.”

Sakura could feel blisters forming on her fingers from snapping out the wire attachments from the bomb. The dislocated wires hung uselessly like narrow snakes from the circuit.

Tick tick tick… 2 minutes 30 seconds…

“O242, U023, I73, N63643.” Syaoran called out.

Where was it? Sakura started to lose focus and fumbled with the cords. Time. Time was running out. There were still at least 9 connected wires left.

“Stay calm. We have plenty of time. “N23532, E23, W134.” Despite his reassuring words, Syaoran’s voice reflected tension. The clues to decipher the code to cancel the timer of the bomb were getting even more difficult to comprehend. He scribbled out another formula. There was banging on the door.

2 more minutes left…

Sakura was unnerved to see the paleness of Syaoran face, despite the fact that sunglasses shaded his eyes. Maybe it was for the better, because she would have lost all hope if she could see his eyes at that moment. Only 6 more of the complex wire structure of the bomb remained, while the others were dislocated and pulled from their sockets.

I minute and 45 seconds left.

“Syaoran, we don’t have anymore time!” Each ticking of the second hand bore a stake through Sakura’s heart.

1 minute, 30 seconds…

“Come out!” Guards outside the furnace room shouted.

“Syaoran! Is this the end? Do something! See, I think these two go together.” Sakura pointed out some wires.

Syaoran gazed over the hints, frowning. He licked his dry lips and swallowed the gulp in his throat. By this time, he had lost the cool composure of his face, and he fumbled with the equations, crossing out all his work. The knuckles of his hand gripping his pen were white. Then it dawned upon him. He scribbled out some more letters. “Y324, O322, R9032, K09324,” he called our clearly.

Immediately, Sakura pulled out the wires, in that order. Two more wires attached the explosive system. One was blue, and the other one was violet. Those two were the only ones that remained in tact to the timer. Then, then, they would be safe.

“Sakura…” Syaoran said in a cracked voice. “There’s no way to figure out the last two circuit codes.”

“What do you mean?’

“It says here, ‘when you reach the last two wires, it will be pure luck. If you cut the wrong line, the bomb will explode, anyway. Is it the purple coated wire, or the blue?’” Syaoran stared at the mess before them of tangled wires with frayed ends, while the timer clock continued to tick away merrily.

“God help me. “ Turning placid, Sakura gazed at the two wires that connected the bomb system, while all the others hung dangling uselessly in a jumble.

1 minute left…

“Which one is it?” Sakura asked. “Which one? Choose the wrong one, and the bomb will explode, kill all the people, damage this whole airport, my friends, brother.” Her eyes blurred… I’ll lose you, too… This was a no win situation. Leave the bomb for one more minute, and it will explode, but cut the wrong wire, it would also explode. This is too sudden, too unexpected.

45 seconds…

Placing her hand over her heart, Sakura took a deep breath. Her hand covered where her crystal star necklace, Syaoran’s Christmas present, lay underneath her shirt. Syaoran… he didn’t even say thank you for the embroidery of the wolf she gave him. She had worked on it for month, dropped blood for it, spent whole nights, so much time and anguish. He didn’t even acknowledge that he received it. I guess he didn’t like it…   “Well, let’s get over with it.” Syaoran reached for the blue wire.

“NO!”

“What?” We have 30 seconds left now.” Syaoran buried his head in his hands. “We have no choice.

Just 30 more seconds left…

Can things end like this? So many things to say, so many things I want to do. Syaoran… Sakura took a breath. “Syaoran? I’ll cut the wire.”

“If you insist,” Syaoran muttered, shrugging his shoulders. He clenched his fist tight, his knuckles turning paler.

“Do you seriously think we’ll let this bomb explode?” Sakura asked.

“Clow Reed said that there was no such thing as chance, that everything is already planned out by fate.”

Smiling slightly, Sakura said, “Yet, all the same, I do believe in luck and chance. I believe I am the one that makes my decisions…”

15 seconds left…

“Syaoran?”   “Hmm?”

“I—never mind. It’s nothing. I just felt like calling your name…” Maybe for the last time… no… I know we’ll survive this. Syaoran, I just want to say your name in my head a million times. There was an empty aching feeling in my heart for so long, when you were gone, in Hong Kong. I didn’t want to accept what it was… I should think that feeling should be gone, but it’s still in me. I should be content with all that I have, but there’s always something that I want more, that is out of my reach. I can’t help it. But, why? Why do I wish you would reassure me like you used to, be by my side and help me be strong?

10 seconds…

“It’s my turn to say ‘trust me.’” Sakura closed her eyes shut tightly. “Trust me to make the right choice.”

“You’re not planning to do it with your eyes closed, are you?” Syaoran asked in shock.

9,8,

“Yes. It’s either the blue one, or the purple one.” Sakura placed the bomb on her lap. I’m glad it’s Syaoran beside me, not anyone else.

7, 6,

“Hurry! 5 seconds left.” Syaoran turned his head away.

Heaving a deep breath, Sakura gripping a wire; whether it was the blue or purple one, she did not know. Okay, this is it. What if? What if it wasn’t the right one?

5, 4, 3, 2… 1

“NOW!” As Syaoran shouted, Sakura pulled out the wire. 0.

A loud BANG of explosion was heard. Syaoran threw his body and Sakura’s to the floor.

Sakura clenched her eyes shut. It exploded. The bomb exploded. She waited for the rippling fire, the explosion to shake through her body. But nothing came.

She held her breath and waited. But nothing came.

Cautiously, she peeked up. But nothing came. Colorful rainbow streamers were floating down. Along with it was a note.

Well, how did you like my little surprise? Yes, scared you, didn’t it? Well, you chose the right line. If you cut the other one, there really would have been a real nasty explosion. It’s a good thing that you survived, though it was pure luck, because I won’t be able to have fun if everything was destroyed under the explosive. For the fun is just about to begin! Next time will be much bigger and fancier.