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Chapter 4
‘campfire’
The sharp stab of pain in Sakura’s foot jolted her out of her sleepy shuffle, too late to stop herself from pitching forward onto the cold dark stones. A tiny shriek escaped her, but somehow Li got to her first. Startled and shaken, Sakura held on fast to the arm around her and tried to catch her breath.
“Oh! Thank you… Li-kun. That was close.”
“Are you hurt?”
“No, I’m fine.”
“That’s good.” He was quick to pull away and step back, like he was uncomfortable being so close, and cleared his throat. “But I think it’s time to stop. You need to rest.”
“No,” she protested. “I’m fine, really! I’m not tired, I just- it was too dark to see properly. I just stubbed my toe on a stone, that’s all.”
“It is too dark,” he agreed, scowling briefly at the sky. “You can thank his majesty the Storm King for that. All my life the moon and stars gave plenty of light to see by. Now it’s almost impossible to get around at night. It’s time to stop.”
“No, Li-kun, please! I can -”
“I’m sorry, your highness.” She could see just well enough to recognize the sympathy in his eyes. “But we’d never reach the castle before dawn anyway. And you are falling asleep on your feet. You rest.”
He turned his back and started walking again, and Sakura had no option but to stumble after him.
“Did my brother ever stop to rest when he was trying to save me?”
“He’s a lot bigger than you are, and tougher.”
“I’m not that weak! I’m really strong, actually, because of all my gymnastics classes.”
“Gym-what?”
“Never mind. You just think I’m weak because I’m a girl, don’t you? You think I’m ridiculous for trying to save my brother, even though he once did the same for me. You think a girl can’t save a boy from a castle, for once?”
Li hopped lightly onto a boulder blocking their way, and held out his hand for her to grasp. “I think you are the princess, and Yue will kill me if I let anything harm you. That’s all I care about.”
Sakura relented when she heard the slight catch in his voice, and put her hand in his. He really was so worried about her safety, and was doing everything he could to help her; she shouldn’t be so testy. “I’m sorry, Li-kun, I didn’t mean to pick a fight with you. But you shouldn’t say things like that about Yue. You know he wouldn’t.”
“Say what?”
Astonishment crossed his expression but it was really too dark to notice, and anyway all of Sakura’s attention had been taken up with their surroundings. A little wooded copse nestled here within the walls of the labyrinth, long shawls of moss hanging from the trees like curtains. Fireflies drifted over a small stream. The scene was so cozy and serene that Sakura clapped her hands together with delight.
“It’s a little forest! You have these here in the labyrinth?”
“Sure, they’re all over. Some safer than others.” Sakura didn’t see his wry expression either, skipping under the canopy of trees. She was thirsty and wanted a drink from the stream, but got distracted from her goal when she took a closer look at the glowing swarm.
“They’re not fireflies, Li-kun! They’re fairies!” Just like out of a book! One miniature pixie flew close enough for her to see, her tiny human form clothed to the point of minimum decency in what seemed to be moss and flower petals. Her translucent, fragile-looking wings were what glowed, flashing a bright golden green every few seconds. She saw Sakura’s entranced stare and smiled. Tentatively she held out her hand. “So pretty…”
“Your highness, wait, don’t -”
“Ouch!” A furious, stinging pain shot through Sakura’s hand and she flung the fairy into the darkness as hard and fast as she could. “She bit me!”
“Of course she did,” Li sighed, sounding just a little exasperated, and started pulling her along by the wrist. “Quick, put it in cold water, it will help.” With his other hand he activated his sword and slashed it angrily at any of the hovering fairies in their way. “Go on, get out here! Scram, you stupid little vixens! Get lost!”
He nearly took off a few wings, and finally the digruntled fairies turned their backs and retreated, melting into the thick dusk. He thrust her hand into the cold rushing water and stepped back with a huff.
“I’m sorry,” she whimpered, wiping away the hot tears that had sprung forth. “I didn’t know!”
“I know you didn’t know, which is why you are supposed to ask me first.”
“But they were so pretty!”
“In the labyrinth, nothing is what it seems. Took your brother forever to learn that lesson, which nearly killed him. Please don’t take as long as he did. Please don’t make it impossible for me to keep you safe.” He whipped around and crossed his arms.
Sakura’s shoulders slumped. “I’m sorry, Li-kun. You’re right, I shouldn’t have rushed in like that.”
He exhaled. “Thank you. Don’t forget, there are worse things in this maze than those pint-size bitches.”
“Yes,” she said quietly, mindful of that dread curdling in her stomach again.
“Are you hungry?”
“Huh? Oh, not really. You don’t need to bother on my account -” Her own stomach interrupted her with an embarrassingly loud gurgle, and she blushed in the darkness. Truthfully, she was starving. “Um, that is, can you find food around here?”
“I can fish. Let me just get a fire going.”
From her place on the creek bank, Sakura watched him gather twigs and fallen branches into a purposeful arrangement, then shred some old dried bark into a little pile. She hadn’t even noticed he was carrying a knife at his waist until he pulled it from its sheath, and scraped it across a rock until a few bright sparks flew out. When one of them caught his tinder, he leaned over and blew on it until he had tiny flames going. The entire process seemed not to take more than ten minutes.
“Wow, you’re very good at that. Like a boy scout.”
“A what?”
“Never mind. Who taught you -”
“You have to be quiet now, your highness, or the fish won’t come.” He kicked off his boots and waded in to the water, slightly upstream from her, and bent forward with a look of fierce concentration. Sakura did not know how he could possibly see well enough to even locate a fish, let alone catch it, but she took her hand out of the water and moved back so she could sit by the fire. Its flickering light was friendly, if not very strong, but she could see well enough to know her prized white sundress was already filthy. Her bunny slippers, caked in dirt and tiny bits of leaves, looked even worse. Perhaps it really was best, Sakura thought with a sigh, that Yue wasn’t here.
Splash-splash. Twice in rapid succession Li’s hands darted into the water, and two flopping midsize trout hit the grass in the next second.
“Wow! Li-kun, you really are so -” He knelt by the fish, grasping their still-wriggling bodies, and promptly sliced each one open from nose to tail. Slimy guts spilled out onto the earth. Sakura slapped a hand over her own mouth and twisted away, shocked silent.
“Something the matter, your highness?”
“No,” she mumbled into her hand, and cautiously peeked over her shoulder. The heads were already gone; he was laying out their catch directly on hot embers. Sakura was responsible often enough for fixing dinner back home, and she never really thought herself squeamish… but she’d never seen anyone cut into fish still alive! “Won’t the fish get dirty like that?”
“You planning to eat the scales?”
“I guess not.”
“It’s the best way to cook the flesh right through. They’ll be done soon.” She watched him bury the entrails and wash his hands. Of course he knew how best to cook fish over an open flame; he knew it as well as she knew how to cook them in her own home oven.
“This is how you eat every night.” The thought formed in her mind and the words just slipped out, too quickly to stop. On the other side of the fire Li glanced at her and then quickly looked away. “Every night… over a fire. In the wilderness. This is why you’ve never tasted tea or seen a fork.”
He grunted softly in affirmation.
“It’s not that I want you to feel embarrassed, Li-kun. It’s just so awful. Why is it like this? Where’s your family?”
“I don’t have a family. I’m alone.”
“Well you must have come from somewhere,” Sakura pointed out practically. “And surely someone taught you how to make a fire and catch fish. How to talk.”
“My mother did,” he muttered, and Sakura quickly shut up. “She taught me those things. But she died when I was…” He hovered his hand just above his head. “Maybe about six. Now I’m alone.”
“Oh, Li-kun. I’m so sorry!” Sakura could feel her cheeks flushing furiously at her thoughtless prodding. “I didn’t know.”
“How could you?”
Indeed. Awkward silence prevailed, until Sakura spoke up again.
“I- I actually lost my mother when I was little too. I was only three, I barely remember her. But even if I’d been six, I would have never been able to go on without my brother and my father to take care of me. That’s too young. Who raised you? Who fed you?”
“I fed me.” Li looked puzzled at her question. “I knew how to find food. What do I need to have someone else give it to me?”
“But weren’t you scared to be out here in the labyrinth, all alone? Or at least lonely?”
He looked away again. “No. And anyway, I didn’t have much choice about it.”
“Couldn’t you have gone to the city?”
He shook his head and scowled at the fire, prodding one fish with a twig. “I was not allowed in the city. Yue forbid it.”
“He what? That’s silly. Why would he mind?”
“I don’t know. But he must have given the orders, because his dumb trolls never let me pass through the gate. Even the day after she died, no matter how much I begged.” He flinched slightly, as if he’d said more than he meant to, and poked at his fish more viciously. “I snuck in lots of times over the years, if I needed to, but they would always throw me out when they caught me. The only time I was ever allowed in the city was when I was getting dragged there for a punishment.”
“A what?”
“Never mind. I like it out here in the labyrinth, I like the freedom to go where I please and do as I like. I figured that out a long time ago. If Yue didn’t think I was good enough for his city, then that was just fine with me.”
“He didn’t,” Sakura insisted. “There must have been some misunderstanding, Yue wouldn’t do that to a little boy. He’s really very kind.”
Li boggled at her with such a face that Sakura felt obligated to defend herself. “I know he seems scary at first, because of his wings and those strange eyes. I remember how scared I was when I first met him. But he gave me this…” She toyed with the diamond hanging at her neck, and smiled. “And treated me so nicely. Underneath he’s a very kind person.”
“Didn’t he kidnap you?”
“Sort of. I mean, technically you couldn’t call it a kidnapping because Onii-chan was the one who asked him to take me away. I asked him and he admitted it. But then he felt bad and came to rescue me, and when he did Yue let me go. Why would he do that unless he was really very nice on the inside?”
Li was still staring at her with that strange look, but it seemed he didn’t know what to say. “Eat your fish,” he finally managed. “It’s ready.”
She didn’t have the first idea how, but Sakura watched him scrape the inner meat off the scales with a thin twig, then grab a chunk of it with his fingers. Clumsily she copied him.
“It’s really yummy!” she declared, rather surprised by it. She didn’t think fish prepared without seasonings would taste good, but it was so fresh it didn’t even matter. “Thank you, Li-kun.”
“Hn.” He demolished his in about a minute, apparently accustomed to eating fast, then watched her try to get a grip on her next mouthful. “Would you… like more, your highness? That tree you’re leaning against bears plums. If we’re lucky it might have one or two somewhere up there.”
“I would love a plum, thank you. But please don’t go to too much trouble.”
“It’s no trouble.” She watched him scramble up the trunk like a squirrel, and disappear into the shadows.
“But what do you mean, ‘if we’re lucky’? Is the tree sick?”
“They’re all sick. Every year since Yue disappeared the plants keep getting worse, and pretty soon they’re going to die off altogether. It’s the labyrinth itself; it’s connected to the king.”
“Oh. That means Yue really is very weak now, doesn’t it?” Sakura hugged her arms to herself, anxiety fluttering in her heart.
“That’s right. But this tree looks to be in pretty good shape, actually. We’ve got lots of plums up here. Catch.” She looked up just in time to see one falling toward her, and caught it before it splattered against her dress.
“You don’t seem very worried about him.”
“I’m not.”
“Well I’m worried about him,” Sakura said firmly, nestling herself more comfortably against the tree trunk behind her. She’d finished her fish and felt much better, and her aching muscles throbbed less now that she was resting. Idly she toyed with the plum in her hands. “Li-kun… you said he’s talked to you about me, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Did he ever talk about, um, ‘that’?”
“Huh?”
“He made me his princess. Do you think he wants to marry me soon?”
Something up in the darkness cracked loudly, and with a yell Li dropped to the earth like a fallen rock. He threw his arm over his face before a cascade of plums followed him. Sakura shrieked and jumped to her feet, so sure that Li must have broken something after a fall like that.
“Oh my god! Are you alright? Don’t move -”
He ignored her, sitting up straight before she could even start checking for broken bones. He looked absolutely stunned, and not because of the fall.
“Your highness… what exactly did your brother tell you about the last time he was here?”
Touya didn’t recall having such a hard time seeing, last time he was here in the labyrinth. The heavy cloud hanging overhead had eliminated any chance of the moonlight helping, and the maze itself seemed to have lost the soft lighting he remembered. How many hours had it been since he left Tomoyo? He couldn’t even read his watch well enough to find out.
All alone in the middle of a vast, dark labyrinth, Touya thought about the chances of actually finding his sister and nearly collapsed. Instead, he started climbing wearily over another pile of fallen-in stones. It was too dark to find good footing, though, and when he tried to clamber down the other side he slipped and tumbled all the way down. He hit the ground chin-first, and groaned.
The physical abuse this place loved doling out to him, at least, was exactly how he remembered it. Then he opened his eyes and found himself looking directly at another chunk of clear crystal, matching the one in his pocket. Strange. He would have never noticed it if he hadn’t fallen. Was it some kind of weird coincidence?
“He told me lots of things,” Sakura finally answered, perplexed by Li’s incongruous question. “I mean, it didn’t seem that he wanted to talk about it very much, but he told me all about the labyrinth and the puzzles that he solved to get through it. To hear him talk, you’d think no one ever solved a tile puzzle before, or played a piano.” She rolled her eyes, but Li still looked strangely tense.
“But what about Yue? Didn’t he say anything about Yue?”
“What would he say? Yue was in the castle with me.”
“He didn’t tell you.” At least that’s what she thought he said, because he’d just clapped a hand over his face and was mumbling. “Didn’t… tell you… anything.”
“Li-kun?”
He peeled the hand off his face, looking less stunned and more angry. “Your highness, your brother left out some things when he told you about this place. And you should know that – I mean, you really ought to know that your brother…”
Patiently she waited, but Li’s voice trailed off when he met her gaze. His shoulders slumped. “You love him, don’t you? Yue.”
Sakura blushed pink to hear it said aloud, but shyly she nodded. “I know he’s so much older than I am, but I just can’t help it. He’s so handsome and mysterious and exciting, and he asked me to be his princess. All these years I’ve been dreaming about him, wishing he’d come back, but now I know he must have been waiting for me to get old enough so I could marry him. I’ve been very faithful too, I never dated any of the boys that asked me – not that Onii-chan would have let me, but I didn’t want to anyway – because I could only think about Yue. He makes my heart skip a beat just thinking about him.”
“Of course he does,” Li muttered, and stood up. Sakura watched him put a few steps between them, his fists clenched as if he were unhappy about something.
“Li-kun, what were you going to tell me? Something about my brother?”
“Never mind. It wasn’t important.” She heard him take a deep breath, and let it out slowly. Then he turned around very quickly, as if something had just occurred to him. “Your highness, what did he tell you about me? From that night?”
“Um, well, let me think. He said you were a good fighter and knew the labyrinth really well, and that you helped him get through most of it.”
“That’s it? Nothing else?”
Sakura shrugged, abashed. “Well, if you really want to know, he also called you a short loudmouth and a pesky brat. But those are his words! I don’t agree with him at all, I think you’re very nice.”
“But he didn’t say anything else about me?”
“I don’t think so.”
Again he exhaled, looking relieved. “I’ll be thankful for that, at least.”
“Why?”
Li shuffled his feet and looked away from her. “Your brother and I did not get along, you know. I hoped he wouldn’t talk too badly about me; I would like your highness to think well of me.”
“Don’t worry, no matter what my brother says, I like you very much.”
His lips quirked up in a bashful smile, but then he tensed and the smile fled. Without quite moving, he suddenly had the look of a cat on the verge of pouncing.
“Li-ku -”
“Shh.”
He barely whispered the command, eyes narrowed at the branches above them as if he could see through the darkness if he tried hard enough. Without making a sound, he activated his sword again and bent his knees. Sakura realized she was holding her breath.
“SurPRISE!!”
Sakura squeaked and Li almost fell over his own feet when a little golden animal shot out of the foliage, firelight glinting off his toothy white grin. “I got you!”
“Stupid stuffed animal, you did not! I heard you; I almost cut you in half!”
“Like you could.”
“Idiot.” Li cuffed him sharply on the back of his head, almost knocking the creature to the ground, and got a nasty growl in return. “I thought you were a gargoyle. Do you really think I’m in a mood to play your stupid games right now?”
“It wasn’t a game. I wanted to test your senses, see how well you’re protecting the princess. With you in charge I’m surprised she’s still alive!”
Li tried to strike him again, but this time he was too quick. Almost before Sakura’s eyes could catch up, he was hovering in front of her, one fuzzy arm swept out as he bowed.
“Greetings to you, your highness. Allow me to introduce myself: Keroberos, former guardian beast of the Ripariat, current revolutionary hero of the Labyrinth, and your humble servant.”
“Humble,” she heard Li repeat with disbelief.
“It is an honor to meet you at last! You’re even cuter than your brother described!”
Sakura blushed and ducked her head. “Thank you, K- Ke… what did you say your name was?”
“Kero is good enough for him,” Li assured her, dropping back down to the grass with a weary grunt. “That’s all you need to remember.”
“Be more respectful, brat! It’s Keroberos!” He waved a fist at the uncaring Li, then flashed a sweet smile back at Sakura. “But if it’s easier for the princess to call me Kero, then I won’t argue.”
“Kero,” she repeated, but it wasn’t quite right. He was so small, and cute… “Kero-chan. My name is Sakura. I’m very pleased to meet you. Are you good friends with Li-kun?”
Both of them uttered vaguely scornful noises.
“Not so much friend,” Kero explained, “as maybe… partner. Yeah, that’s it! Partners-in-crime, that’s me and the Little Wolf! I’m much stronger than he is, you know, I’ve saved his hide more times than I can count.”
Li elected to roll his eyes rather than bother replying.
“So you’re the one that he said helped him to fight the trolls! I think my brother told me about you too… you’re the one that couldn’t remember his riddle?”
Li snorted. Kero scowled. “Jeez, forget one boring riddle and it marks you for life. He shoulda never stuck me with it in the first place! I’m really gonna let my brother have it when I find that worthless bum.”
“Who’s your brother?”
“Yue,” both of them droned, and Sakura’s eyes flew open with surprise.
“What? But you’re -”
“Much more handsome, charming, and fun? I know. I try not to spread it around, so don’t go telling anyone, okay?”
“How did you know?” she asked Li.
“He finally admitted it a few years ago. Why else would anyone try so hard to find Yue?”
“Just so I can yell at him about the sorry state of affairs this kingdom has come to!”
“Sure.”
Kero looked more than a little defensive, and Sakura wondered if he was really worried about his brother. Sympathetically she patted his furry head.
“It’s okay, Kero-chan. I’m scared for my brother too. He got taken to the castle by the gargoyles today.”
“Yeah, I heard. Good job, by the way.” He directed that last part at Li with a smirk, who ground his teeth. “But I guess this means you guys haven’t heard the latest news.”
“What’s that?”
“Your brother’s escaped; he disappeared hours ago.”
Sakura gasped, and Li sat up straight with surprise. “Are you sure?” he demanded.
“Really, Kero-chan?”
“Sure as I’m hungry. Hey, did you guys eat fish and not save any for me?”
“But how?”
“Heck if I know. The worms just know he vanished right out from under Rai’s nose, and the king’s throwing a royal fit over it. Ooh, plums! I haven’t seen this many in a while, don’t mind if I do.”
And despite the fact that his whole head was not bigger than one of the round fruit, he opened his mouth wide and stuffed one in.
“Worms?” Sakura echoed, confused.
“The worms that live in the walls of the labyrinth,” Li explained. “There’s thousands of them, and they’ve got nothing to do all day but gossip. Anything happens, they’ll make sure the news is on the other side of the kingdom in under six hours.” He chuckled and shook his head. “It’s good news for us, anyway. Can’t imagine how he pulled it off, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Your brother attracts more trouble than anyone I ever met, but he had a funny way of wriggling out from under it just in time.”
“You shouldn’t talk,” Kero advised, having finally swallowed the plum and spat the pit out into the darkness. “You attract plenty of trouble yourself, kid.”
“But Kero-chan,” Sakura interceded, before Li had a chance to retort. “Where is he now? How can we find him?”
“We can’t.”
“But there must be some way!”
“Sorry, Sakura, but the only way we’ll find Touya out here in this maze is sheer luck.”
“If he’s smart enough to keep himself alive and from getting captured again,” Li added, “then he’s doing as well as any of us can. For now, your highness, all we can do is the same.”
Sakura wished there was some way, but for the life of her could not imagine what it would be. She was, though, relieved beyond words to hear her brother escaped. Now she really could rest, without the fear and guilt plaguing her.
“Well I’m glad he’s safe,” she mumbled, and yawned. “And maybe we’ll find him…”
“Maybe. You should go to sleep, your highness. We’ll keep watch.”
“-kay.” She slumped over onto the grass, fidgeting a bit to get comfortable before she realized, one way or another, it wasn’t going to matter. She could never remember being so tired. Her last thought before slipping into sleep was, as it had been for five years, about Yue.
The fire had almost died. A heap of glowing embers were all that was left, occasionally throwing a stray gleam of gold light on Sakura’s peaceful face. Kero propped his chin in his paws, unabashedly ogling her while she slept.
“She’s cuuute when she sleeps. I still dunno what Yue wanted an heir for, but you gotta at least admire his taste when he chose her. Hey, what are you doing, you pervert? Get your hands off her!”
“Shh.” Li draped a long veil of dried moss over her, doing his best to cover her legs – and the way her dress kept riding up as she slept. “I just thought she’d be a little warmer with this. Don’t think I’m like you.”
“And don’t think you can hide anything from me, you little punk,” Kero replied cheerfully. “I know the way you feel. So, how bout it? Confessed to her yet, in between all that saving her life business?”
Li’s heart almost jumped into his throat and he checked on Sakura, but she was sleeping soundly. “Would you shut up about that, you mangy animal? I can’t; she’s the princess. Besides…” He heaved a big sigh and sat back down, determinedly facing away from her. “It’s hopeless anyway. She’s in love with Yue.”
Beside him he could hear Kero choke and gag on another plum pit. Without looking he whacked him hard on the back and knocked the pit clear out of his throat.
“Wha?” he wheezed. “Why?”
“I don’t know. She thinks he’s ‘kind’ or something.”
“Seriously?”
“So she says.”
“But doesn’t she know her brother -”
“No idea. He must not have wanted to talk about it.”
“You should tell her the truth.”
“Why don’t you?”
Kero gagged again. “Like I’d want to talk about my brother’s love life.”
“Well I won’t do it.” Li poured a handful of dirt onto the last of the fire, extinguishing its light. “It doesn’t matter anyway, keeping her safe is all that matters. If I can do that much, then I’ll be happy.”
“Such a noble little wolf,” Kero teased, and got some dirt in his face for it.
“Your majesty.”
The darkness coating the labyrinth was so complete, it was all Rai could do to see the tops of the endless stone walls. The darkness was his own doing, but even so he wished he had the power to see through it. Or even better, tear apart that infernal maze brick by brick. He was beginning to wonder if that might be the only way he could ever truly conquer this peculiar kingdom.
“Your majesty?” The gargoyle had crept closer, properly cringing in deference to his master’s dark mood. None of his servants would breathe easily tonight, not with the humiliating escape of Yue’s toy still hanging over their heads.
“What is it?”
“I-it’s fairies, your majesty. Fairies from the labyrinth have come to see you.”
Rai glanced sideways just enough to see a handful of the vicious little insects hovering behind the gargoyle, and sneered. He’d as soon swat the things as let them come anywhere near him.
“Dwellers of the labyrinth to see me? Do they think they have some right to demand my time?”
“No, your majesty.” Quickly the gargoyle ducked his head in contrition. “It’s just – they’ve come for the reward. They want to lead us to the Little Wolf.”
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Disclaimer: I do not own these characters
I apologize if this chapter was a little on the slow side, but I promise next week things are finally going to start to HAPPEN. Yes, Vix, and Li will get his much-anticipated Big Damn Hero moments (hooray for random Firefly refs). The kid could use some action to work off a certain other energy, if you know what I mean.
I very briefly mentioned in the first chapter that Sakura had just had her fifteenth birthday, and Li is the same age. That would make Touya about twenty-two or so. Nara, you may find me if you are so inclined by searching ‘peacewish’ at ff.net – I’m the only author that comes up when you do. Enjoy.
And lastly, I’d like to pet and soothe all my anxious readers that are fretting over Yue’s return. I’m glad you want it, but try not to be so impatient. A feast gets better with hunger, they say. His time will come.
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