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Chapter 2
‘return’
Li had managed to land on his feet, somehow, and swept his sword in a tight arc as if to fend off the attacking gargoyle. They’d managed to get away cleanly, though, and after deciding they were safe he returned his sword to its original amulet form. Sakura was still sitting where she’d fallen, staring open-mouthed at the view before her, and he offered her a hand.
“Your highness. Are you injured?”
“No,” she finally managed, when she could wrench her gaze away from the labyrinth and look at him. “No, I’m fine. You saved me again.” She moved to put her hand in his, but someone else pushed it aside before she could.
“This ‘your highness’ business is starting to get on my nerves, kid. She’s not even head cheerleader, so drop it already.”
“Onii-chan?” It was Touya that hauled her to her feet, cupping one hand under her arm. “How did you get here?”
“I grabbed on too, of course. Do you really think I’d let you come to a dangerous place like this alone?” He shot a nasty look at Li. “Or worse?”
Li scowled and looked away. Sakura didn’t like the scathing glares they kept shooting at one another, but in truth she was relieved her brother was here. Coming on top of everything Li told them, the gargoyle’s second attack had left her rather shaken, and scared. Now she’d been taken from her home and unexpectedly thrust into an entirely new world, and it was overwhelming. She was grateful for his reassuring, if bossy, presence. At least he’d been here before.
“So this is the labyrinth,” she whispered, still trying to take it in. Touya had described it, but words couldn’t compare to the seemingly endless walls twisting and bending and turning back on themselves. How could anyone solve a maze so vast, so complex? It must be impossible. At the center of it all rose up the castle she remembered, looking very far away. But the sky wasn’t clear, like it was that night she once spent there. Over all of the kingdom hung a menacing thick cloud, dark as charcoal and stopping short just over the outer walls.
“What’s with the weather?” her brother asked, staring at it. “It looks like a typhoon is about to let loose.”
“In a way,” Li agreed, voice as dark as the sky. “The sky’s looked like that ever since the Storm King came. I haven’t seen the stars in nearly a month.”
“That’s so sad.”
“Believe me, it’s the least of our problems.” Li nodded for her to follow and started down the hill; Sakura kept up as best she could in her slippers. Touya was still gazing out over the labyrinth, looking pensive, but after a minute he too started down the slope.
“Can’t believe I’m doing this all over again,” he grumbled. “Right back where I started, and this time it’s not even my fault. I never wanted to come near this place again.”
“Nobody made you come,” Li said over his shoulder, unsympathetically.
“I told you, my sister is not going in there without me. Besides, what was I supposed to do, let you take off and leave me behind with that freaky flying thing? God, it must have destroyed half our house by now.” He winced when something else occurred to him. “What about Dad? What if we don’t get home before he does? He’ll think someone attacked the house and kidnapped us both.”
Sakura cringed at the thought, but tried to stay optimistic. “He wasn’t due back from Egypt for at least another week, Onii-chan, and he said it might even be longer. I’m sure we’ll be back before then, and we can clean up the mess. Right, Li-kun?”
Li glanced back at her but lowered his eyes rather than reply, which gave Sakura something of an uneasy feeling. Her brother growled under his breath.
“Perfect. We’re stuck here for who-knows-how-long, and there’s nothing to stop that thing from wrecking our home.”
“No, Rai’s soldiers cannot stay on, anymore than I could, and it would be a waste of his energy to try. He’ll call it back soon enough. It’s too bad I couldn’t kill any of them, but that may be a good thing.”
They’d reached the entrance. The size of the front gate surprised Sakura; compared to the labyrinth beyond it had seemed so small, but the doors towered over even her brother. He reached for the outer edge of one, but stopped short at Li’s sharp command.
“No! Don’t open it!”
“What, aren’t we going in? Wasn’t that the big plan?”
“Yes, but we can’t use the gate. Rai will know; he’s had it watched since he invaded, probably so no one can escape.”
“Then how did you get out?”
“There are other ways. Secret ways. Come on.”
Touya ground his teeth, looking annoyed, but Sakura followed dutifully. And sure enough, just ten minutes further on, Li stopped and knelt by the wall. Sakura couldn’t see anything different at first, but then he pushed at one of the giant bricks and it swiveled back away from the others. This set off a chain reaction beginning with the two bricks below it, and the four under them, until a pyramid-shaped gap in the wall had opened up all the way down to the ground.
“Wow! Amazing!” raved Sakura. “Like a secret door! How did you know it was here?”
He shrugged diffidently. “Just one of those things I picked up. Watch your head now.”
Obediently she ducked her head and went through, and both men moved to follow at the same time. A brief stare-down resulted in Li, reluctantly, allowing Touya to go first.
And then Touya was back in the labyrinth. An involuntary shudder ran down his spine when he looked at his surroundings: the familiar gray corridor stretching away to his left and his right without end, even more depressing against the equally gray sky. It was as if he’d come a full circle, been forced to start all over again, and this time it wasn’t going to be nearly so easy as simply finding one giant castle.
“Strange,” Sakura was murmuring. “I thought there would be a lot of twists and turns, but it’s just one path.”
But at least he had the experience to help his sister.
“Actually, Sakura, it’s an illusion. See, right over here, it looks like just ordinary wall, but if you -”
“Oh, wow! I see it; it’s like you can walk right through the wall!” And without so much a second’s hesitation, Sakura sailed right through the opening a worm once had to point out to Touya. His advice trailed off and he just stood there, with what was probably a very blank look on his face, until Li snorted with undisguised amusement. “Onii-chan, this place is so amazing! Come on, hurry up!”
“She got lucky,” he informed the smirking Li. “She happened to see it at the right angle, that’s all.”
“Onii-chan!”
“Sakura, wait up! Don’t go too far ahead or you’ll get…” He scurried after her and stopped short when he reached the first of the courtyards. The very empty courtyard. “-lost. Sakura!”
“Surprise!” She jumped out from behind a statue he’d thought was flush against the wall. Damn this place; those dimensions still liked to play tricks with his eyes. Sakura was grinning ear to ear, looking delighted with herself. “Did I scare you?”
“Kami-sama, do not give me heart attacks like that.” Touya closed the distance between them and gripped her hand in his, a little more roughly than he’d intended. “Sakura, this is not a game, this place is dangerous. We could lose you forever if you wander out of sight again! And do you know what sorts of things could happen to you? Better let me go first, and don’t let go of my hand. There are trap doors all around us, and if you fall in one you’ll be trapped in a horrible dark cave without any way out.”
Sakura stopped squirming, suddenly looking apprehensive. More than anything she hated dark, scary places. “Really?”
“Trust me, I’ve been there. So you stay with me, and listen to what I say from now on.”
“Ha,” Li tossed out scornfully when he passed them, his voice flat with derision. “Please. Like you’re anyone to talk about how to survive the labyrinth.”
“I made it through, didn’t I?”
“Barely. And every time you nearly died, it was because you were doing something I expressly told you not to do. ‘Don’t go into the beast’s forest, Touya’. ‘Don’t fall like a moron into the Ripariat, Touya’.”
“You could add ‘saving your ass from a party of trolls’ to that list,” Touya put in snidely, as he and Sakura moved to follow him around another corner. Li shot him an exasperated look.
“Like I’ve told you a dozen times already, I had that situation completely under control.”
“Sure, and the whip was all part of the plan.”
“Whip? What are you talking about, Onii-chan?”
“Nothing,” Li answered hastily. “And anyway, that hasn’t happened even once since you left. They can’t catch me anymore. Too bad for Rai.”
“The enemy king, right?” Sakura pipped, skipping alongside Touya in her bunny slippers. “He’s trying to catch you?”
Li looked away again. “…yeah. Kinda.”
Something about the way Li couldn’t meet his sister’s gaze was starting to bother Touya. “What was that you said, back there, about how maybe it was a good thing that gargoyle got away? How is it good? Now this Rai person knows we came here.”
“Yeah, but now he also knows the princess is with the Little Wolf. He might be more careful about trying to attack her now.” They passed through another archway and turned right.
“Little Wolf?” they both repeated, Touya in disbelief, Sakura with bright-eyed curiosity. “What do you mean?” she added.
Li studiously avoided meeting Touya’s eyes. “After the trolls and goblins started to get out of control, I kinda… helped a lot of people by fighting them off. The city dwellers needed it, poor sods, had no idea how to fight. They didn’t know my name, but after a while they all started talking about me. They call me the Little Wolf.”
“Amazing! So you’re like a super hero for the Labyrinth!”
“I’m no hero,” he muttered.
“He’s no hero,” Touya affirmed.
“Anyway, then Rai took over, and he doesn’t like me because I’m the reason a lot of his soldiers don’t come back from their patrols. I think he’s offered a reward for catching me. If he knows the Little Wolf is protecting the princess, he’ll probably be more cautious about throwing the enemy at us. I hope.”
“Oh, we do think we’re good, don’t we?”
“Shut up, Touya.”
“It’s just like a manga!” Sakura gushed. “Or even real history, like the French Resistance. We learned about it in school. But how did you get the name Little Wolf?”
“Yeah, Li,” Touya chimed in, mercilessly. “How’d you get the name Little Wolf?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.” Li shot him a warning glare, to which Touya smirked. “It’s not important.” He whipped back around and almost stumbled over his own feet to keep from taking another step forward, wobbling crazily for a second before he regained his balance. “Too close,” he breathed, and then carefully hopped over the stone tile. “Whatever you do, don’t step on that.”
“Wow.” Sakura skirted carefully around the side. “You really do know everything about the labyrinth, don’t you?”
“Not everything.” With narrowed eyes Touya watched him blush and look away from his sister’s admiring smile. “More than any other human, I guess. Spent near every day of my life out here.”
“Did you really?”
“So,” Touya began, neatly putting himself between the two, “Little Wolf. Answer me this: how did this invading Storm King and his minions march in here and take the castle so quickly, without the benefit of guidance like yours? I always figured the whole point of this hellborn maze was to keep enemies at bay. How did he ever make it through?”
“Trolls.” Li rolled his eyes in disgust and started walking again, turning left past the fountain.
“Yue’s trolls?”
“You know any others?”
“But they work for -”
“They work for anyone that feeds them, and those scrawny goblins too. Yue’s gone, and when Rai showed up they switched loyalties in less time than it takes to spit. They led him to the castle, they obey his orders, and I think they’re the ones that told him about me.”
“Were they the ones that told him about Sakura, too?”
“Guess so. Who else?”
“I hate them.”
“Welcome to my life.”
“Onii-chan, you’re squeezing my hand too tight,” Sakura complained. “Let go, already.”
“Not a chance. Anything could happen.”
“But Li-kun is the one that knows everything about the labyrinth. I think he can keep me safe whether you’re holding my hand or not.”
“That,” he assured her, “is not your decision to make.”
“Onii-chan!”
“Shh.”
It wasn’t Touya that shushed her, but Li. He held up a hand for silence, and in the ensuing quiet Touya heard a noise like drying sheets flapping in the wind. Li grabbed Sakura by the arm, prompting a startled squeak on her part, and nearly threw her against the nearest brick wall, adhering himself next to her. Her hand had been ripped out of Touya’s before he had a chance to resist, but he couldn’t worry about that right now; if there was one thing he remembered, it was that if Li was hiding from something, there was good reason for it. He dove for the nearest fountain and rolled underneath it, curling in his legs to keep them hidden.
The flapping noise grew louder, and a huge shadow passed over the tiles between them. Then it disappeared, the flapping noise faded away, and after a minute or two of silence Li relaxed enough to step away from the wall. The brambles of some overhanging shrubbery on the other side had been just enough to conceal them.
“What the hell was that?”
“That was a gargoyle, patrolling. As long as you pay attention, you can always hear them coming. Their wings make an awful noise.”
“They’re airborne. How are we supposed to hide from them in a labyrinth when they can fly overhead any minute? Maybe we should…” Touya wrinkled his nose at the thought of it, but still said the words. “Go below. If it’s safer.”
“It’s not. The trolls are patrolling the Underground, and you remember how sounds carry down there. We’d probably never be quiet enough to go unnoticed. Anyway, there’s no food or water. Just keep an ear out and we’ll be fine.”
Touya had his doubts, but didn’t feel like arguing the point. His memories of that place were not pleasant, after all. He shrugged and held out his hand. “Come here, Sakura.”
“No, you hold on too tight. I’ll walk beside Li-kun, he’ll keep me safe.”
“Sakura, come here now.”
“Yeah, Onii-chan, saying it like that is going to change my mind.” She lifted her chin haughtily and fell in alongside Li again, turning her back on him. Touya stewed, but if he went after her and forced her to hold his hand, she’d fuss, loudly. What if that gargoyle heard them? Grumpily he stomped after her.
Stupid Li. Stupid labyrinth. Touya never wanted to see either of them again in his life, yet here he was, walking in his own footsteps of five years ago. It was like nothing had ever changed.
Well, that wasn’t quite true. Touya eyed the rubble of a partially fallen wall when they walked past, the third such pile he’d seen since they entered the place. This must be the result of that earthquake Li mentioned, and he wondered if the damage was any worse elsewhere. Did anyone get hurt?
It’s not your fault, Kinomoto, some voice reminded him, inside his head, you had to do it. But that wasn’t helping the uneasy feeling in his stomach. There were other differences in the labyrinth, too, plants that he remembered green and lush seemed smaller now, shriveled and brown. What was that Li once said? Something about the magic of the labyrinth and its king being intertwined?
“Ouch,” he hissed, when he put his right foot down on something sharp. Damn it if he wasn’t back here in socks again; was it too much to ask that just once he come to this place with his shoes on? He lifted his foot to check if he was bleeding, but what he found underneath surprised him. It wasn’t just any jagged rock; if anything, it looked like ice.
Touya bent over and picked it up, rubbing the hard, smooth planes and watching how it refracted light to cast a smudge of rainbow on the ground. Clear quartz, he guessed, pressing his thumb against the sharp edge again. He didn’t know the labyrinth had minerals like this.
“Your highness.” Touya looked up again and saw Li and his sister had gotten well ahead, almost out of the courtyard. The archway had fallen in, and Li was stretching out his hand to help her up over the rubble. She took it, and even from here Touya could see his cheeks turn pink. He scowled and stuffed the shard in his pocket, then hurried to catch up.
The three of them wandered for another two hours, according to Touya’s watch. Or maybe wandering wasn’t the right word, since he sensed Li knew exactly where he was going. Occasionally he glimpsed the tallest spire of the castle, always on their right, and guessed he was leading them in a wide clockwise circle around the outer edge of the labyrinth. He didn’t recognize a single specific landmark, himself, but didn’t admit that aloud to Sakura.
There wasn’t a single aspect of the labyrinth that she didn’t find fascinating. She cooed over the pretty fountains, the statues, even the attractive brickwork.
“Onii-chan, you were all wrong about this place,” she laughed, prompting a roll of the eyes on his part. “You talked for years like it was horrible and impossible to get around it. I think it’s very pleasant.”
“You have a guide. Before I met Li I had to figure this place out myself and it wasn’t easy. Let’s see how well you do solving puzzles and falling through holes into pitch-black caves.”
“None of that will happen to me as long as I stay close to- ooh!” Sakura clapped her hands with delight when they rounded a corner and came upon a giant rearing stallion, clipped to meticulous detail from a bush, on a pedestal. “Wow, look at that! Isn’t it beautiful?”
Here the walls had become high, thick hedges, as dense and unpenetrable as their stone counterparts, but they were widely spaced and did not press tightly in, making it feel more like a park than the labyrinth. It was a garden of statues: huge butterflies, great birds, lions, foxes, and peacocks, all tantalizingly visible over the leafy walls. “Look, there’s more! They’re fantastic!”
She scampered into the garden. “Don’t go too far, your highness,” Li called out to her back, stepping up his pace. “This is still the maze, you can still get lost.”
“In the labyrinth,” Touya remembered out loud, “nothing is what it seems.”
Li cast him a sidelong glance. “That’s right. That much, at least, hasn’t changed since you saw it last.”
“I’m sure. Speaking of which, why are you really doing this?”
Li frowned. Sakura had gotten ahead, admiring the animals, and couldn’t hear them. “I told you. Somebody has to keep the power of the Labyrinth from falling into Rai’s hands.”
“Patriotism,” Touya said skeptically.
Li looked uncertain. “What’s that?”
“It’s… loyalty for your homeland. The reason soldiers die to protect it.”
“Well I don’t plan on dying. But okay. Patriotism.”
“Bullshit,” Touya replied matter-of-factly. “You don’t know the first thing about loyalty, not to this king. You’ve spent your whole life hating him.”
They passed a swan, Li scowling at him when he came out from the other side. “I told you, the labyrinth is my home.”
“And just for that, you’ll risk your life to follow Yue’s orders. Are you sure it doesn’t have something more to do with my sister? The girl that Yue offered you, like she was thirty pieces of silver, for feeding me that peach?”
Li flushed scarlet and looked away, out of anger or shame Touya didn’t know. “Any claim I had on your sister disappeared when I returned to help you, Touya. Things are different now, she’s the princess, she’s royalty. And I’m… just about the farthest thing from it.” He plucked at his threadbare cotton shirt, and grimaced. “Besides, Yue already warned me not to touch her.”
That surprised Touya enough to stop walking, and Li got a couple of steps ahead of him. “He did?”
“Yes. Very strongly warned me.”
“Why?”
“Because he’s the king, and he likes telling me what I can’t do. I don’t know, he just did.”
“That’s good to hear. Because if I see so much as a hint that you’re touching my sister inappropriately, I’ll push you into the Ripariat myself.”
Li tightened his fists and hit a faster pace, but Touya stayed where he was. Something else was weighing on his mind.
“Where is he?”
“Who?”
“Who do you think?”
Li paused mid-step and looked back over his shoulder, confused and impatient. “I told you, I don’t know. No one does.”
“You know this whole maze top to bottom, Li. You must know the hiding places. Where would he go? The Underground? The Ripariat?”
“Do you think I’d actually go looking for him?”
“You said he left you messages. How?”
“I don’t want to talk about that.” Touya could swear Li flinched, but if he did then he was quick to cover it up. “Anyway, what’s it to you? Worried about him?”
“No,” Touya said quickly, and crossed his arms. “But we need him, don’t we? To defeat this invading king.”
“My guess is he’ll show himself when it’s convenient for him. It’s Yue.”
And with that very short, but apt, argument, he turned and started walking again. Sakura was no longer in sight. “Your highness? Wait for us!”
Touya followed Li, but his mind was not on his surroundings. Worried? How could anyone ask if he was worried about a creature like Yue, who could bend time and space to his will and had done as much in his effort to trap Touya here?
But he’d failed, and then promptly disappeared…
Touya swallowed and noticed his rippling reflection in the waters of a nearby fountain, bending over to get a better look. By tugging on his shirt collar just a little, he could see what Li had thankfully not yet noticed. Two days after his return from the Labyrinth, Touya began to realize that the bite mark Yue left on his neck wasn’t ever going to go away. It faded, a little, into the shape of a crescent moon, but never disappeared entirely. Most of his shirts covered it, and he told his family that it was just a burn mark he got in an accident at work.
Burned, hah. More like branded. There wasn’t a morning or a night that Touya didn’t look at it in the mirror and think about Yue, and for five years on every full moon there wasn’t a night he didn’t dream about him. Intense and erotic, if silent, dreams that always left Touya to wake up sticky with sweat and semen, dreams so real he’d been sure it was Yue coming to him in the only way he still could. But if it really was Yue, and all this trouble was brewing in the Labyrinth, why didn’t he ever say anything to Touya?
He had not come, this last full moon. Touya had slept dreamlessly, and woken disappointed and confused.
But not worried. Yue did not deserve his worry.
Touya straightened and realized he could no longer hear Sakura, who did deserve it, very much. Hadn’t he been just behind Li? Now he was alone. “Sakura?”
No sound of her voice or Li’s, even on the wind. “Sakura?” he repeated a little louder, and started running the way Li had been going. Or at least the way he thought Li had been going. Damn Yue for distracting him!
Past the giant animals and hedge walls he sprinted, periodically calling his sister’s name, and trying not to panic. Li knew this place, he reminded himself, and when he realized Touya wasn’t with him he’d come back and find him. It wasn’t an emergency, just an embarrassment that he’d rather avoid.
He turned a new corner, and started when he found himself face to face with a gargoyle.
“Idiot,” he scolded himself, when he saw it was crouched on a pedestal like all the other animal statues. He was just jumpy. He started to walk around it, then froze. He did not know for sure if he’d seen a flicker of motion in the corner of his eye, or just imagined it, but his heart started thudding all the same. In a place where nothing is what it seems, of course this gargoyle was no statue.
Touya bolted, but it was too late. With a horrendous screech it launched itself off the pedestal and pounced on him like a ton of bricks. He hit the grass, and yelled.
Both Sakura and Li jumped at the distant scream of a gargoyle, and automatically checked the sky. They could see nothing, but then Touya’s yell of pain joined the gargoyle’s scream and Sakura shrieked.
“Onii-chan!”
“Shit!” Li drew his sword and took a step toward the noise, then hesitated and looked back. “You can’t go; stay here.”
“But Onii-chan -”
“You must stay here, your highness, you have to hide! Please, now!” The urgency in his voice was enough to scare her into backing up, and obediently she scrambled under the belly of a strutting fox. Li took off at a hard run, boots pounding on the grass, hedges streaming past, but he wasn’t fast enough. Before he’d even found them he heard what he dreaded most: the arrival of a second gargoyle. Damn it! He should have never let Touya out of his sight; how could he have forgotten what a disaster magnet he was?
On the far side of a hedge he finally glimpsed them. Touya was frantically beating his fists against the one he could reach while the other clawed at him from behind, trying to get a solid grip on his shoulders.
“Get it off you, Touya, get it off you now!”
Touya twisted and cracked his elbow hard against the side of its head, stunning it, and Touya sprinted to get clear. Exactly the wrong way.
“Touya, no, other way, go the other way!” Helplessly stuck on the other side, watching through the gaps, Li had no choice but to run alongside him.
“Where’s my sister?” Touya shouted back. “Did you leave her alone?”
“I had to!”
“Go back to her now!”
“But -”
One of them latched on again and Touya yelped with pain, then bent forward and slammed the gargoyle to the earth. He swung his fist at the other but hit too close to the mouth; Li winced when Touya cut himself on the gargoyle’s inhumanly sharp teeth. The gargoyle clipped him hard on the side of the head in retaliation, and Touya nearly hit the ground.
“Damn it, Touya, get out of there! You’re in a dead end, you have to run the other way!”
“Go back, I told you! Don’t you dare leave my sister unprotected!” Savagely he kicked at his attacker and tried to slip free again, only for the fallen gargoyle to grab his leg and bring him down hard. Li swore colorfully and did something he thought he’d never do. Holding his sword by the blade, he tried to shove it through the hedge for Touya to grab.
“Take my sword, Touya, kill them! You have to hurry!”
He wasn’t even sure if Touya heard him, this time. Each of them had got a hold of his arms now, before he even had a chance to make it back onto his feet, and were valiantly struggling to keep him down. The call of a third approaching gargoyle sealed his fate.
Li tugged his sword back out of the bushes and started running, desperately, knowing that if he could just get around to the other side of the hedge in time then Touya still had a chance. He ran like he had never run before, but no human can run faster than a gliding gargoyle. It dove and disappeared behind the hedge, and once there probably finished Touya off with a hard blow to the head. At least, Li could hear no more sounds of struggle. Several minutes later he’d come around the twists and turns to get there, but it was too late. The trio were already airborne and winging it back to the castle, their captured prey slumped unconscious on one’s back.
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Disclaimer: I do not own these characters
Ah, how I’ve missed leaving you all dangling on evil cliffhangers. Did you all miss me too? It’s great to be posting again, and great to see my old friends (and some new faces!) here for my first-ever attempt at a sequel. I’m still nervous about it, but I’m very excited about the story that I’ve come up with and I hope you will all like it as much as I do.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts, critical or otherwise, and as usual will answer selected questions as well as I am able. I can probably save you a lot of trouble by announcing right here and now that YES, every character in the first Labyrinth fic (both CCS and Labyrinth) will show up at least once in the sequel. I will also tell you that some characters (both CCS and Labyrinth) that did not make the cut for the first story will be appearing in the sequel. But I won’t say who. I think you guys know me better than that!
Where were we? Oh yeah, Touya’s been captured by the enemy. I smile maliciously, and bid you farewell until next week.
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