Story: Tomoyo's World - Part 3- Beyond Their Wildest Dreams (chapter 2)

Authors: Risa Kaijuu

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Chapter 2

Title: Chapter 1



Chapter 1


After dinner Sonomi invited the girls up to her suite for a talk.


"Now someone explain to me how this time travel Card works." she asked as she looked from her daughter to Sakura and back.


"Well, when I used it, it sent my spirit back into my body a week before." Tomoyo started. "Sakura has used it to physically travel back before she was born to talk to Clow. It can do either, but it takes a lot more energy to move a body than just a spirit."


"So what happens if you go back to... No. That's not going to work. You girls were only three when she died, so if you go back to warn her you will be in a baby body. Perhaps one of you could go back to before you were born and warn Nadeshiko...or even 'that man' that she is going to need a mammogram..."


"But if I change the past, it moves reality into another Timeline and this world will no longer exist. And maybe you two who stay behind will no longer exist." Tomoyo put in. "And I'm not even sure I could come back. I think it can get really complicated.


"Oh! So we could...erase ourselves then?" Sonomi confirmed.


"Exactly. Changing the past is dangerous." Tomoyo said thoughtfully. "When I went back to save Sakura-chan, Eriol had first checked for the best outcome. He is able to do that. And even then it wasn't certain. I could have failed and Kutong could have won. I got the feeling from talking to him that nothing is certain when you deal with time. I don't really understand just why, but that's the way it is. So we have to be very careful or we will really mess things up.


"How about if I ask Dream to show me the future?" Sakura suggested. "That should let us know what we can do and how it will turn out."


"Maybe. I suppose we could try it." Tomoyo agreed reluctantly.


"Then, I will use Dream tonight and see what I can find out." Sakura said confidently.


"I guess it won't hurt. There is no hurry when we can control time." Sonomi said with a note of wonder in her voice.


Tomoyo and Sakura retired to their room early and left Sonomi alone with her thoughts. And she had a lot to think about.


"Not only is Magic real but I actually have power myself! Not to mention my Tomoyo who not only has Magic, but has used it to save a city. No, I can't even get my head around -that- thought. Yet on top of that, shy innocent Sakura seems to be carrying the power of a nuclear warhead in her pocket.


And if that were not impossible enough, it seems that the girls have the power to go back and change the past... And the power of -that-...well it...is even hard to think about. I guess she could even go back and prevent the great war from happening. She could literally change anything that happened in the past. Change the entire world... But, of course it isn't that simple. Things never are. Even Magic I guess. If Sakura went back, my Tomoyo and I could be erased from existence. So I suppose the time traveling power is limited. At least if you have anyone you care about. Which is a relief in a way...


But if the girls could somehow save Nadeshiko's life. That would be more wonderful than anything! I could just go over to their house and visit her anytime I want. Even if she is married to that man... That doesn't really matter! I was -so- stupid! So horribly horribly stupid... What I wouldn't give just to see her lovely face smiling at me again. And now there is a chance that this could actually happen! There -must- be a way that the girls can do it without erasing any of us! There -must- be!


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That night Tomoyo made sure to put her shield up and reminded Sakura to use her Shield Card. "You think we need to do this every night?" Sakura asked.


"I'm afraid so. But it isn't a problem, is it?"


"Not unless you need to use the bathroom." Sakura smiled.


"Can you tell Shield to let me in whenever I ask?"


After a moment, Sakura replied: "I'm sorry, but Shield isn't very smart. She has trouble telling people apart and she is worried that she would accidentally let in the wrong person. But you could just wake me up anytime you need to go and I'll wait for you to come back. Would that be okay?"


"I guess, but I hate to bother you that way." Tomoyo sighed and then continued. "But I suppose we don't have any choice."


"It's okay." Sakura said softly before giving Tomoyo a long loving kiss. "You can wake me up any time you want." She finished with a provocative note in her voice.


"I LOVE this! It's just like the dreams I used to have!" Tomoyo shouted in her mind as tears once again wet her eyes.


"Well now, I guess I'm ready to see the future." Sakura said with a smile. "Dream Card! Send me a dream about saving my mom's life!"


As soon as Sakura finished her order she fell instantly asleep. But that wasn't all that Dream did. Tomoyo lost her Magical mind link to her Sakura.


"I can't feel her! I can't even touch her mind with my Magic sense. Her body is here but the rest of her is...gone. It's as if...she were dead. It is SO scary! And on top of that it feels...lonely. I've gotten so used to always feeling her "right there"...and constantly feeling her warm love touching me...but now she is gone..." After a sigh another thought made Tomoyo smile sadly. "And if that isn't sad enough, I wasn't really ready to sleep yet. Oh well, no helping it now... I'll just have to do without tonight."


Sonomi had gone to bed but she couldn't sleep. She was so excited she felt like she would explode. "I have Magic and I can feel it! I can reach out and touch things with it. And I can grow wings and fly. Just like I dreamed of so long ago. And...actually I never really stopped dreaming." she admitted to herself as she remembered a boring meeting when she dreamed of stepping out the window and flying away just a few days earlier.


"I feel like it's Christmas eve and I'm nine years old. I just know that the morning will bring wonderful things. And the sooner I can get to sleep, the sooner it will come. But I am just too excited!"


To try to get her mind off her anticipation she decided to exercise her Magic sense. She touched everything in her room and tried to identify it, then tried to reach into the next room to do the same thing. It was hard but she pushed herself for all she was worth. But she wasn't drawing any Magic energy from anywhere, and so was using her own bodies energy to power her Magic. After twenty-three minutes of this her body gave out and she fell into a deep sleep. But her body was very slow to recover using only it's own internal resources, so for the first time since she was in school, she not only didn't wake herself at 5:30am as usual, she slept through her alarm clock. When she wasn't down for breakfast at six-thirty the maid came looking for her, but even the maids pounding on her door didn't wake her until nearly seven.


"Are you sick?" The worried maid asked her when she finally opened the locked door.


"I don't think so. I'm just really tired...and hungry. Tell the cook to make me double portions and I will be down shortly." Once the maid was gone she got in the shower and tried to get her mind working as she washed. "Why am I so tired? And hungry... Magic? Maybe using Magic wore me out. There must be some trick to it since Tomoyo never mentioned being exhausted so easily. Or maybe I just need to exercise it more. I'm way out of shape, Magic wise." She grinned to herself. "Now I hope Sakura is up with good news!" But she soon found that though Tomoyo was up and eating breakfast, Sakura was still sleeping.


Over breakfast, Sonomi told her daughter about how she had used her Magic a lot and then gotten really tired. After a moments thought, it was obvious to Tomoyo.


"You probably aren't drawing any Magic energy from anywhere. I'm guessing that you should draw from the Earth like I do, but we'll have to experiment to find out for sure."


So they did experiment. And Tomoyo tried her best to use her Magic to show Sonomi's Magic how to draw energy from outside. Tomoyo tried the Earth first as her hunch was that her Mom had the same Magic as she did. But when that was a total failure she tried drawing from the Sun, the Moon, and finally, the Stars. But as far as Tomoyo could tell she didn't get a bit of energy from anywhere.


"I wonder if she is just trying -too- hard? I can't tell. I really don't know what I am doing after all. I just get these hunches... Maybe they are memories of the lady I used to be way back in the past. But in any case, it seems mom isn't going to draw any energy just yet. She feels so exhausted. I wonder if I can give her some of my Magic energy... Yes! I think it's working!"


"Tomoyo! I am filling with something. Something good! It must be working!"


"Sorry Mom. That was me, giving you some of my energy."


"Oh..." Sonomi said in a voice that seemed to break Tomoyo's heart.


"I WILL teach her to draw Magic energy from her source! I will do it!"

 

"Let's take a break, my head hurts from all the straining." Sonomi said tiredly. "Are you sure that I should be able to pull Magic energy from somewhere?"


"No. I'm not sure of anything. I know hardly anything about Magic. Maybe you should go to London and see if Eriol will teach you."


"So much for "I will do it!" I need to be more positive. And I don't trust Eriol anymore.


"All I need to do is connect Mom's Magic to...where ever? No! She is Earth Magic like me, I'm sure of it. Somehow. I just need to be more positive and persistent!"


"Do you feel like trying some more?" Tomoyo asked her mother.


"Yes, I feel fine now!" Sonomi replied with a smile.


"Okay, now don't strain. Just gently reach out like you were spreading a blanked over the surface of the ground around the house, can you feel a warm soft flow coming up out of the Earth."


"YES! I can feel it! It feels good somehow."


"That's Earth Magic all right! Now can you draw the energy with your Magic and power yourself up with it?"


"Uh... No? I can't seem to do anything with it, except feel it." Sonomi replied, disappointed.


That's when Tomoyo realized that she was drawing her energy quite automatically. She had been gifted with the knowledge so she didn't have to think about exactly what she was doing. "What I need to do is really understand how -I- do it!" she thought to herself.


So she sat quietly for a moment and tried to analyze exactly what she was doing. In a moment the answer was clear. "Are you trying to grab the energy and pull on it?" Tomoyo asked."


"Well, yes. I guess you could say that...how else?"


"Use your Magic to feel the energy gently, then imagine that you are in a hole below the energy and you are empty. Then just let the energy flow into you on it's own."


As Tomoyo was watching her mother who was sitting with her eyes shut, she visibly relaxed and in a second, a big smile spread across her face. "Yes! It just flows into me and I absorb it like I'm a sponge."


"That's it! Now you can power up and use as much Magic as you want. Just keep soaking up the Earth Power. In time it will become automatic and you won't even have to think about it." Tomoyo finished with a happy smile.


"She can do it! My mom really has Earth Magic, just like I do! This is SO neat!"


"This is so neat!" The elegant business woman echoed her thoughts, sounding so much like a teenager that Tomoyo had to laugh.


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"I wish Sakura would wake up and let us know what she found out. And I wish she was successful, and I wish a lot of other things too." Sonomi finished with a smile. "But life seldom goes the way you want without your working really hard to push it in the right direction. And for the moment there is nothing to do except sip tea...and draw Earth energy." She finished with a smile.


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